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• The headline in the tabloid newspaper Corriere dello Sport landed like a thud.2019 December 7, Kevin Baxter, “Column: Soccer world’s struggle with racism seems never ending”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles…. From the entry never ending
• There was an echoey thud, a splash that sounded very toilety in nature, and then, “I’m in!”2017, Jennifer Brown, Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry toilety
• Hammers thudded into its flesh, and warblades bit at its flanks, but it refused to fall.2016, Josh Reynolds, “The Prisoner of the Black Sun”, in Hammerhal & Other Stories: Great Fiction from the Mortal Realms (Warhammer Age of…. From the entry warblade
• The noise level thudded beyond deemed acceptability for a construction site, let alone a pleasuredome.2012, Bruce Clark, Paradise for Beginners, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., →ISBN, page 174. From the entry pleasuredome
• For squishing in the mud; Two great big black welly boots: Thud, thud, thud.2009, Verse for Ages. From the entry welly
• You could almost hear the thud of knowing viewers falling off their chairs.2005, Kevin Weisman, Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6, page 13. From the entry see you next Tuesday
• As Sara watched, disbelieving, a slow moan escaped his lips and he thudded to the ground.1989, Mandy Rice Davies, chapter 19, in The Scarlet Thread, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry white-faced
• He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 203. From the entry monody
• A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 24. From the entry fable
• Though history could still be perilous, as the thud and blunder of Jean's own, lowercase, romance had proved.2012, Lillian Stewart Carl, The Blue Hackle, page 5. From the entry thud and blunder
• Services offered include: operating leases, sale-and-lease-backs, remarketing ol used Fokker aircraft, thud party lease management. inspections. airline audits and holderships.1999, Airfinance Annual, page 194. From the entry holdership
• The thudding rhythm and the sour-sweet smell rocked them as they pushed through the heavy curtains inside the swing door.1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 54. From the entry swing door
• The first they knew was the thud, thud, of the fighting-sticks on the heads of the two old people.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 194. From the entry fighting stick
• It found new things on which to pander, as the tribal drums thudded and the smoke-talk climbed the Australian sky.1932 September 27, The Sun, Sydney, page 20, column 7. From the entry smoke-talk
• The sea was gradually rising, a swell perceptible, and the ship bumping with increasing thuds against these rolling spur-projecting dangers.1916, Captain Gerald S. Doorly, The Voyages of the Morning. From the entry hummocked
• He heard the creak of saddlery and the thud of a horse’s hoofs on the hard turf behind him.1911, Archibald Marshall, chapter 10, in The Eldest Son, New York: Dodd, Mead, published 1919. From the entry saddlery
• All other sound was buried in the heavy twock of longbows, and the hiss and thud of Merron arrows seeking and finding their target.2010, Hachette Assorted Authors, Scoundrels, Monsters, and Special Circumstances: Orbit October-December 2010, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry twock
• They were dancing to the tune of incessant yowlings, the thudding of wooden drums and the monotonous dry rattling of pebbles in turtle-shell rattles.1996, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms. From the entry yowling
• But it's still a powerful record, with Iggy's vocals blending Jim Morrison and Lou Reed over the dead, thudding strangeness of Mr.1977 November 3, “The Pop Life”, in The New York Times. From the entry germano-
• There was a short crash as he caromed off some obstacle, then a pause, then a mingled thud and crack as he hit the ground.1954, Ian Fleming, “No Sensayuma”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 79. From the entry carom
• The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 284. From the entry blench
• As moldy drywall thudded to the curb in a depressing drumbeat throughout Breezy Point, Queens, Thomas Ryan’s reciprocating saw stood out like a growling declaration of impatience.2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild…. From the entry drywall
• Pausing under a tree, picking and sniffing through the Gravensteins, yellow skins splashed with magenta drip, firm formfuls of breathtaking smells, a dull thud draws me to the next.2008, Nomi Rowe, In Celebration of Cecil Collins: Visionary Artist and Educator, page 74. From the entry formful
• The next ambient effect came with the drumlike, thudding heels of a toddler in the audience, who drew close to his mother when the tongue wagging started.2007 November 15, Jennifer Dunning, “Brooklyn Butoh, With Surprise Guest Stars”, in New York Times. From the entry drumlike
• "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" opens today, and on July 21 the seventh and final Potter tome lands with a thud at your local bookstore.2007 July 12, Peter Rainer, “'Phoenix' rising: Harry Potter and the abridged tome”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry Pottermaniac
• My heart dropped with a sick thud when I read small type on the label; rather than a German set from EMI Electrola, this originated in the U.K.1986, Fanfare, volume 9, numbers 3-4, page 197. From the entry gloriosky
• Half a second after that, she had him totally pinned while he thrust at her crotch with his ramrod, going thud thud thud like a blind dog in a maze.2009, Gina McQueen, Opposite Sex, page 78. From the entry ramrod
• Pulling on a pair of trackie pants and a jumper, she quietly unclipped the flyscreen and pushed up the old window and climbed through, landing outside with a hollow thud.2009, Fleur McDonald, Red Dust, ReadHowYouWant, page 118. From the entry trackie
• The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.1983, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Defective Detective in the Pulps, page 2. From the entry pulp

Meaning of thud

1. noun The sound of a dull impact.
2. noun A hard, dull impact.
3. noun A slower, dull impact with a wide surface area.

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Questions about thud in a sentence

How do you use thud in a sentence?

Thud is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.”

What is a short sentence with thud?

“A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.”

What does thud mean?

Thud means the sound of a dull impact.