thud

The follow-up to the brilliant “Tattoo You” landed with a thud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Most auto industry first-quarter earnings landed with a thud.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Drums thud behind him as supporters chant his name.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

As handled by Ms. Littman, it’s matter-of-fact, a fate that lands with a plain, inarguable thud, and devastating all the same.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

He throws it in the empty cauldron where it lands with a dull wet thud, the watch clattering against the metal.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

He has since returned to training at his Tokyo stable, where the bone-crunching thuds of wrestlers colliding echoes around the walls six mornings a week.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Tom has reached an age when he can no longer get around the house without an accompaniment of creaks and groans and thuds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Ross McCrorie drops a shoulder and storms into the Leicester box for Bristol City and then thuds a shot at goal.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024

Mornings inside the nunnery are filled with the thuds of heavy footsteps and the clanking of swords as the nuns train under Ms. Lhamo’s tutelage.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

He was well out into the great field and looking for a sight of the distant arch when he felt along the ground the first stamping thuds of the alarm.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

It turned out to be a moot point when the new results thudded into my inbox: I scored a 666 ng/dL, right in the normal range.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

With his seventh delivery of the day, the relentless Henry thudded the ball into Root's pad.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

Sixty-six-year-old Jose Pena hid in the bushes as two Ecuadoran military helicopters thudded overhead.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

The theater literally thudded with the sound of high heels as attendees flooded out while Mohammed offered his own housekeeping notes, including a directive to “vacate in height order” in case of emergency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2024

As she squeezed out of the high chair and walked over to where her cousin stood her heart thudded inconveniently and her breath was short.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Hrgovic came out with renewed purpose in the ninth and landed a thudding right which sent Itauma staggering backwards, almost through the ropes.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The propulsive groove on “Another Life” evokes a thudding drum break pulled from a dusty groove pressed in the early ’70s, as Ms. Howard sings forcefully, moving between a curling falsetto and a feral howl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Williams had no problem approaching the devastating service speed of her glory days, thudding down one unreturnable delivery that reached 120mph late in the first set.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

In “1984,” Big Brother survives by wielding absolute power; freedom is flattened by the thudding steps of a goose-stepping soldier and by language that makes those steps seem necessary.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

I stood staring at the tiny unmoving form with my heart thudding strangely against my ribs.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom