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
There's a slight crimp in it, to be sure, but nothing that can properly be called a crump.
From Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Bensell, Edmund Birckhead
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
