thumps
Example Sentences
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Alcaraz turns around and thumps Sinner at the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
In other videos we verified from the night of the fire, some people in the bar can be seen filming the flames as loud club music thumps in the background.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
As the beat from Azealia Banks’ “212” thumps in the background, she bounces around her tiny New York bedroom, twirling like a chemically enhanced cool girl.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
And they’re attracted to rhythmic thumps on the surface, so the Fremen — people who live in the Arrakis desert — walk in strange, loping, arrhythmic steps to avoid accidental detection.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The words hit him like a rapid series of thumps to his heart.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
