crump
Example Sentences
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Ghost doesn't flinch at the crump of a shell landing nearby.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023
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
With an explosive crump the right wing tore off and the Commando plunged toward the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There was some fancy driving past them crump holes in the road, but we might have been at Olympia the way them drivers shaved past at the canter.
From Between the Lines by Cable, Boyd
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.