thunk

One could read Crooker’s dismay at the American robin’s thumps and thunks against her windowpane as a rhyme for the name of a certain infamous conman turned populist demagogue.

The Sheriff’s Department admitted in a news release that the gun might have actually fallen out of a squad car — thunk — onto the streets of Los Angeles.

The venue fell silent as his final shot sailed toward the target, hitting with a thunk.

“Who would have thunk it would be so simple? It was a fluke,” Harris, now 79, told The Times in a recent interview.

There’s a gentle “thunk” as the bolt bounces off the whale, taking its nugget of tissue.