Sentence examples for thumping from inspiring English sources

Palin men thumping their chests.

AM, with its mixture of thumping bass notes, intricate vocal layering and fabulously acute wordsmithery, has prompted a clamour of critical gushing.

Like Mercury, Lambert paid his dues with opera training, theatre, singing in clubs and performing dance and rock, which has given him the dexterity to tackle a catalogue stretching from thumping grooves (Radio Gaga, Another One Bites the Dust) to blistering hard rock (Seven Seas of Rhye, Tie Your Mother Down).

By the time she reached Murchison Street, the wind had reached 140kmh, branches were cracking and thumping against her vehicle.

Porterfield (33no) and Joyce continued to thrive, however, with the latter thumping Ahmed Raza for a flat six and then a four in the eighth over.

"I'm sitting here still trying to make it better for him and I'll never get him back – do any of you understand that?" she told the Melbourne coroner's court, thumping her hand on the witness table.

Gavin Robinson, 29, is the new, more progressive voice of the Democratic Unionist party; a politician who broke the mould of tub-thumping, hardcore Protestantism by attending a same-sex wedding as lord mayor of Belfast, and who – whisper it softly – is even known to have gay friends.

And yet, at the same time, there is a certain fastidious abstraction; a lawyer's critical distance that for the most part will not allow him to indulge in the kind of tub-thumping that can win you high office, and then keep you in it.

Whatever angst might go into the writing, there is no doubt that Arctic Monkeys also know how to put together a tub-thumping crowd-pleaser.

Senior figures attribute a recent spate of backbench agitation over Europe and immigration to grassroots tub-thumping.

Rather than an agent of change, he is sounding more like his tub-thumping predecessors.