thuds

Accounts from the day recall the sickening thuds the bodies made on impact with the ground.

Soon the only sounds were the clank of a shovel and thuds of dirt being moved.

A prolonged brrrrrrrrrrr from Kalashnikovs drowned out the gasps and thuds as bullets strafed across the line.

Dull thuds as a missile or shell impacts sends people scurrying and anxiously scanning the skies.

The axemen rushed across the open and soon the thuds of their axes told of the cutting away of the abatis.

Then her heart seemed to stop suddenly, and then leap with excessive thuds of horror against her breast.

Great masses of snow were shaken from the swaying tops of the firs, and fell with light thuds upon the ground.

He stepped out of the cabin and presently Gibney and McGuffey were conscious of a rapid succession of thuds on the deck.

Often Paul would wake up, after he had been asleep a long time, aware of thuds downstairs.