thud
Example Sentences
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His question lands with a thud at my feet and everything I’ve been wanting to tell him scrambles into a pile in my head.
From Literature
One by one, Nine swept them back into satchels, then cinched them up and swung them into the tree hollow behind him, where they landed with a soft thud.
From Literature
As handled by Ms. Littman, it’s matter-of-fact, a fate that lands with a plain, inarguable thud, and devastating all the same.
The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.
I stood staring at the tiny unmoving form with my heart thudding strangely against my ribs.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
