thunk
Example Sentences
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But we had a great time making it, and then it went thunk, but now I still get fan mail about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
I came to love the satisfying thunk of the cleaver hitting the cutting board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
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
We heard a loud thunk thunk thunk from above.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
