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
"Beryl was like a surprise attack, like an ambush," says Cornelius, in a deep baritone voice, over the market's chatter, reggae and thwack of cleavers on chopping boards.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
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
It snapped back against her throat with a thwack!
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
At last week’s class, high-fives and hair-styling tips were generously distributed between thwacks of tennis balls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Manly Mando thwacks and snicks his way through all opponents while scarcely breaking a sweat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Each instrument cut through the air with its own vibrations — splashes, thwacks, tinkles, knocks — for a cumulative effect that was captivating to experience live.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
No crack of bats or thwacks of balls popping into mitts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
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
When Mirren allows herself to be body-slammed, the shock of seeing the cinema’s queen thwacked into concrete makes it impossible to focus on the stakes of the scene.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
When Neil Wagner tried to bounce him, Brook cleared the front leg and thwacked the ball away, baseball-style.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
Seemingly everything he threw, the Rockies touched or tipped or simply thwacked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
Jackie thwacked her forehead and said she couldn’t believe she’d never thought of that before.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
Once, the frenetic thwacking of flippers was the peak of manic childhood glee.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
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
It landed with a crash and started thwacking about with such thunder that I was afraid it would demolish the boat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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