Sentence examples similar to deadened thud from inspiring English sources
He'll take a few ritual dribbles and release the ball, which inevitably pinballs downward off the rim, or misses the rim altogether and smacks into the backboard with a deadening thud, like a bird flying straight into a glass window.
After putting his inadvertent victim's bloody body in a mail sack, Lucan assaulted his intended victim, his wife, with the same "length of lead piping, specially prepared to deaden the thuds"; she escaped, with severe head wounds, to the shelter of a nearby pub.
Hitting vital bone with a solid surgical instrument (e.g., an osteotom) will lead to a thudding, deadened, 'tubby' sound similar to the one produced by knocking on a wet log of wood.
As first-class passenger Jack Thayer described it: Occasionally there had been a muffled thud or deadened explosion within the ship.
"I am flattened, deadened.
She wears red, her expression deadened.
Repeated pain had not deadened their feelings.
The Rays deadened the fans, too.
The finale deadened the whole piece".
Besides looks, the cockpit is also nicely deadened.
