thunk

The venue fell silent as his final shot sailed toward the target, hitting with a thunk.

“Who would have thunk it would be so simple? It was a fluke,” Harris, now 79, told The Times in a recent interview.

There’s a gentle “thunk” as the bolt bounces off the whale, taking its nugget of tissue.

A second later Jack heard a dull thunk, followed by a groan and what sounded like a body hitting the cave floor.

She dropped the whole container on the floor with a thunk!