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Example sentences for "thump"

Lexicographically close words:
thumbing; thumbnail; thumbs; thumbscrew; thumbscrews; thumped; thumping; thumps; thunder; thunderbird
  1. I heard the thump of bodies swung against the panelling, fierce execrations, the smash of crockery, and the heavy breathing of men engaged in deadly conflict.

  2. At last, to her intense relief, a thump came at the door, and Kit rushed unceremoniously into the room.

  3. The exhilaration of the brief rush downwards sent all her troubles out of her head, and she uttered a war-whoop of delight as she landed with a thump on the mat at the bottom.

  4. Waller, and he gave the table a heavy thump with his hammer before listening to the girl's descending steps, and breathing hard as if he had been running the while.

  5. Not as strong as I used to be, Jimmy, and I haven't quite got over that thump I got against the rail.

  6. For thirty long minutes, during which the uproar ceased for a moment or two once or twice, the Shasta did not move at all, and Jimmy felt his heart thump under the tension, while a cold breeze whipped his face.

  7. But when they held themselves to listen, they could still hear the measured thump of oars against the pins, like the beat of a distant drum in the brooding silence of this melancholy solitude.

  8. The tell-tale thump of the oars had ceased.

  9. There was no need to swing it on this luckless pirate for his bald head smote a plank with a thump which must have cracked it like an egg.

  10. Soon the deck above them resounded to the tramp of boots and the thump of sheet-blocks as the brisk seamen made ready to cast the ship free.

  11. Against her masts the yards of the Plymouth Adventure banged with a sound like distant thunder and the idle canvas slatted to the thump of blocks and the thin wail of chafing cordage.

  12. His companion, aroused by the thump of a falling body and a string of curses rising on the night air, turned back and bent to help him up.

  13. She heard the sound of tearing foliage as the lion sprang blindly into the lower branches, a thump as it toppled back to earth, then an angry roar of protest at being cheated of its prey.

  14. I ran as I had never run before--I thought my heart would thump itself to pieces; but at last I got to the valley and saw Marah crossing the brook by the causeway.

  15. That is just where I was in my dream, when my uncle with a vehement thump on the table dragged me back to the realities of life.

  16. A violent thump made the furniture rattle, and spilt some ink, and my pen dropped from between my fingers.

  17. The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.

  18. Defn: To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.

  19. This is better than a thump on the back with a stone; said on giving any one a drink of good liquor on a cold morning.

  20. A kick or blow: from the words mea culpa, being that part of the popish liturgy at which the people beat their breasts; or, as the vulgar term is, thump their craws.

  21. Approaching Tom Lute's cottage from the harbour ice, old Bob Likely cocked his ear for the thump and shuffle of feet and the lively music of the Little Fiddler of Amen Island.

  22. The lad gave a chuckle, a jerk of his head, and a thump of his crutch.

  23. Meg listened to the thump, thump of the little crutch going off into the dusk, and to the sound of merry whistling, and she turned to pursue her way.

  24. So there the nice old lady sat, With phials and boxes all in a row; She asked the young doctor what he was at, To thump her and tumble her ruffles so.

  25. Do you still thump dear Mamma, and Fanny, and Una, and Julian, as you did when I saw you last?

  26. I hope you will call him Tom Thump to his face when you see him, and thump him well if he finds fault with it.

  27. With a heavy thump on the pier the canoe began to capsize, and only by the nearest escape was she saved from foundering.

  28. While they wash they talk, and while they talk they thump and belabour the clothes; but there is always some idle eye wandering which speedily will catch sight of the Rob Roy canoe.

  29. Mrs. Toomey's heart continued to thump as she lay rigid, listening.

  30. I just listened and loved it--every thump of it.

  31. It was unladylike to thump so heavily, thought Robbie Belle in the midst of her confused dismay over having lost the place in the text as well as forgotten the translation.

  32. She said the "invited" with such a thump on it that my heart almost broke.

  33. He would lazily open his eyes and wink one of them at Happy Jack and thump with his tail.

  34. A thump and a scurry of little feet caught his attention, and he turned to see a Gray Squirrel running for the open window.

  35. The thump, thump, thump of the feet pound over the board to call the attention of the underworld gods to the needs of their children up here.

  36. If she doesn't succeed it won't be for want of knowing how to thump at doors.

  37. The lurking unexpressed is infinite, and affectation must have begun, long ago, with the first act of reflective expression--the substitution of the few placed articulate words for the cry or the thump or the hug.

  38. There were keen, sharp hissings in the air, terminating abruptly with a thump near by.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.