Sentence examples for good thumping from inspiring English sources

So now and again their jealous lovers would give them a good thumping.

And after hooking a simple backhand long and wide, Pierce tries to gnaw her own thumb off - but not before giving her racket a good thumping, first.

Patients with CF at Fairview got the same things that patients everywhere did — some nebulized treatments to loosen secretions and unclog passageways (a kind of mist tent in a mouth pipe), antibiotics, and a good thumping on their chests every day.

It's never easy to win at Saints and we got a real good thumping here last year.

And one possibly Satanic magician even brought up the early 20th century Thelema cult of ceremonial mage Aleister Crowley, writing, if you've studied Crowleyan Magick, you know that nothing speeds a spell on its way like a good thumping orgasm.

That's a good thump in the back.

Now we learn that G4S is using a chunk of that cash to train its recruits to give members of the public "a good thump" but without leaving a mark, of course (It was easy to miss something and I did – in the bag was a bomb, 24 July).

I see an abundance of beauty in older faces – faces of people who have not been afraid to "over-exercise" their facial muscles with a thumping good laugh, or a bloody good cry if the occasion demands it.

That said, Almost Like a Whale remains a thumping good read, which is just what we have come to expect from its author.

Yet Isaacson, a former chief executive of CNN and biographer of both Henry Kissinger and Benjamin Franklin, has triumphed over expectation, producing a thorough exploration of his subject's life, a skilful piece of scientific literature and a thumping good read.

I just like to write what you might call a thumping good yarn.