tunk

Example Sentences

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The curious sound was inside, growing more eager every moment—tunk, tunk, tunk-a-trrrrrrr-runk, tunk, tunk!

From Wilderness Ways by Copeland, Charles

There is nothing in it of the dull "tunk" of stone, or the blither "clink" of copper.

From The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages by True, John Preston

A curious sound, a hollow tunk, tunk, tunk, tunk-a-tunk, grew louder as I approached.

From Wilderness Ways by Copeland, Charles

I heard the tunk of an oar then!

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf by Gordon, Harry