thwack
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The following “RV Envy” adds the thwack of a full drum kit to the mix, and the staticky howl of the hurdy-gurdy is as hectic as a smashed window triggering a building’s alarm system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: I think what Judge Burroughs did was quite remarkable—she took a thwack at Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh in the opinion itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
With a hop, skip and a thwack, the age of the Chloe Kelly is upon us.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
Combine sand and gunpowder and thwack, you’ve made a brick of TNT.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
“She taught to the thwack of the hickory sprout,” Preacher Parr remembered.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
At last week’s class, high-fives and hair-styling tips were generously distributed between thwacks of tennis balls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Each instrument cut through the air with its own vibrations — splashes, thwacks, tinkles, knocks — for a cumulative effect that was captivating to experience live.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
Two thwacks of the cleaver and he’s cut the duck in half.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
After putting on running tights, a long-sleeve T-shirt, gloves, and a hoodie, she crossed the hall to Brooklyn’s room and gave the door three hard thwacks with the bottom of her fist.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
When Neil Wagner tried to bounce him, Brook cleared the front leg and thwacked the ball away, baseball-style.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
Seemingly everything he threw, the Rockies touched or tipped or simply thwacked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft is on its way back to Earth, having thwacked — briefly — the surface of an asteroid called Bennu last year to scoop up samples.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
The children gasped as the boat flew up into the air and Maalu thwacked back into the ocean.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
It was a beautiful trail, and the woods soon filled with the steady sound of boots on dirt, poles thwacking rocks and heavy breathing.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2023
In the U.S. alone, somewhere between several hundred million and one billion birds die every year after thwacking into windows, many of them beckoned by interior lights.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2022
The sound of two sneaker soles thwacking a drum fill on the ground as Stubbs tried to regain his balance.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
Mosquitoes swarmed while mouse-sized dragonflies bombarded the hunters with thwacking, thumping thuds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Little kids play double Dutch in the empty lot, their braided ropes thwacking against the cold asphalt.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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