thud

For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.

The guns raised in unison, the sighting of the game, the rounds of shots, the thud as a prey is felled, and then the silence.

The most recent, a great big, messy love letter, is about to land with a dull thud in your neighborhood bookstore.

Obviously, if it were just Democrats, the Republicans would have had the votes to pass the THUD bill.

You could hear the clicking in the back and when you opened it, it had a thud to it.

There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

In this way he can reach up to the tops of the tallest trees and cut off the cocoanuts; when thud!

Then a sudden sound sent him on to one elbow—the thud of an approaching horse's hoofs.

Heavy steps rang on the bridge over his head, and the thud of their fall was like thunder to the man beneath.

The dull thud of a footfall in the cell above hammers on my head with maddening regularity.