Sentence examples for thud that from inspiring English sources

The 33-year-old landed with a major "thud" that sounds incredibly painful.

There was something about the dull, hard, thud that resounded when she stamped her foot on the impenetrable metal object that made me shudder.

He said he heard a "thud that didn't sound normal" as the train pulled in.

Once he was launched, he waited for the sound, the thud that may have saved the Giants' season and torpedoed the Jets'.

He was polishing off the town's anthills one by one until that train engine stripped away his life with a hollow thud that echoed beneath the interminable sky of La Mancha.

My heart suddenly felt like frozen tundra, and my love, a drugged polar bear, was about to fall to that tundra with the bear-like thud that bears make when they fall down suddenly.

Some were dressed in military fatigues and had heavy anti-aircraft guns; they, too, fired joyously as they passed cheering crowds, with a heavy thud-thud that shook the ground.

But the most troubling thing was the ceaseless roll of drums: a sonorous, ponderous thudding that hovered around me.

We could hear it now — great booms and thuds that sounded like mortars — and there were gray smoke bursts, too, off in the distance.

Forcing his way into each song like a man coming home late and trying to break into his own house, Johnny fronts a lead-footed band that always manages to achieve the worst drum sound in the world — a heavy, listless thudding that is the banner and bane of French rock and roll.

In fact I am willing to bet I was hearing stuff at the extreme bottom that the record producers hadn't heard, because some of it was soft but obviously extraneous infrasonic noise occasional thuds that were totally unrelated to the music.