crump

Example Sentences

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We hear the drills and the crump of the digger.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2023

Finally scrumplicate which evokes the positive "scrumptious" but probably depends more on "scrumple" to crush and the crump of violent opposition.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2014

It was more of a crump and you felt it through the rig.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2013

With an explosive crump the right wing tore off and the Commando plunged toward the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Club, or crump, footed, Loripes; Rough, or leather, footed, Plumipes."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold