thwack
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The following “RV Envy” adds the thwack of a full drum kit to the mix, and the staticky howl of the hurdy-gurdy is as hectic as a smashed window triggering a building’s alarm system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: I think what Judge Burroughs did was quite remarkable—she took a thwack at Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh in the opinion itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
Forget the huge thwack of decisive national victory.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
The truck, which serves Mexican food, was parked across from a two-story home under construction, where the clang of hammers and thwack of nail guns sent echoes through the canyon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
If I'm going to swing a stick of wood to thwack a round object, I'd rather it be the flatter rectangle of a cricket bat.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
It opens with a D flat in the low strings, winds and brass, a tenebrous and flatly final sound incapable of being dislodged by the thwacks and thumps surrounding it.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
So when he and Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia heard the thwacks coming from down the hall, they assumed it was a coach’s kid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Two thwacks of the cleaver and he’s cut the duck in half.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
After putting on running tights, a long-sleeve T-shirt, gloves, and a hoodie, she crossed the hall to Brooklyn’s room and gave the door three hard thwacks with the bottom of her fist.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fans all over the world can track every shot of every player — including balls thwacked on the driving range.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
When Neil Wagner tried to bounce him, Brook cleared the front leg and thwacked the ball away, baseball-style.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
Upon creating it, he thwacked an inch-perfect cross toward the mouth of the goal, where Pulisic flew in to head it past Ochoa to give the United States a 1-0 lead.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
The children gasped as the boat flew up into the air and Maalu thwacked back into the ocean.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
“To be real with you, some of my early stuff wasn’t the most authentic,” she says as her drummer starts thwacking a snare during sound check .
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
It was a beautiful trail, and the woods soon filled with the steady sound of boots on dirt, poles thwacking rocks and heavy breathing.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2023
In the U.S. alone, somewhere between several hundred million and one billion birds die every year after thwacking into windows, many of them beckoned by interior lights.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2022
The sound of two sneaker soles thwacking a drum fill on the ground as Stubbs tried to regain his balance.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
Once voices came very close, and the search party went thwacking through the cornfield.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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