crump

Example Sentences

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Ghost doesn't flinch at the crump of a shell landing nearby.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023

We hear the drills and the crump of the digger.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2023

Finally scrumplicate which evokes the positive "scrumptious" but probably depends more on "scrumple" to crush and the crump of violent opposition.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2014

With an explosive crump the right wing tore off and the Commando plunged toward the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the ramping of the continuous crump the B.M. scraped away the dirt and stuff that had fallen from the throbbing walls of his dug-out and fished out the Code-Book.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 by Various