thunk
Example Sentences
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I came to love the satisfying thunk of the cleaver hitting the cutting board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
“Who would have thunk it would be so simple? It was a fluke,” Harris, now 79, told The Times in a recent interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024
Not twigs, mind you, but big, heavy limbs that would fall straight down with a thunk and a shoosh of dead leaves onto my front lawn.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
And who would've thunk that at the time?
From Salon ● May 16, 2023
When we heard the last thunk of rocket remnants hitting slack, we went out and began collecting the pieces.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
