Sentence examples for muffled thump from inspiring English sources

As it fell, with a muffled thump, the multitude went dumb.

Then a distant roar, the thick, muffled thump of electronic beats and realisation dawns.

Soon, an electronic bass line slipped in below the ghazal, and then the muffled thump of a downtempo drumbeat.

(The Alice books would fulfil a similar function in the 1942 film Mrs Miniver, where a mother recites Carroll's line about "remembering her own child-life and the happy summer days" as her family listens to the muffled thump of bombs falling during the blitz).

Things don't really pick up again until There Is No Ice (For My Drink), propelled by a muffled thump like a house night heard from the smoking area – and that's when we see a dash of Yorke's genius, as he garnishes the track with a wordless vocal refrain that lifts it from the gurning grime of the club floor to the heights of an ecstasy epiphany.

Muffled thumping, squishing noises, grunting all the classics.

I hear the muffled thumps as my children make their best attempt at peaceful footsteps up the stairs, and I know they will soon be at the door.

Their muffled shouts and thumps could be heard in the background during the TV broadcast of the Six O'Clock News.

Here's one hypothetical reconstruction: [Muffled sound of thumps, bangs, and assorted clunks.] NIXON: How the [expletive deleted] do I get this [expletive deleted] thing to work here?

On a drive back from visiting my husband's relatives in Luyano, another extremely impoverished suburb of Havana, at dusk, when the streets were eerily dark, we heard the horrible squeal of tyres directly in front of us, a loud thump, a muffled scream and then pulled up to see a woman crumpled in the middle of the road, her bags scattered behind her.

Muffled early morning chatter was accented by the thump-thump-thump of running feet against plush carpet.