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How to use thumping in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Thumping means exceptional in some degree. Example: “A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.”

Examples of thumping by meaning

adverbExceptionally. Very.

  • A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.

nounA dull, heavy sound.

  • There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.1941, Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died

nounA beating.

  • He received a thumping from the school bully.

nounA heavy defeat.

  • Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC

More sentences with thumping

  • Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.From the entry leg
  • Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping on drive.From the entry on
  • I was talking to Bob about the noise made by my neighbours, when right on cue their music started thumping through the wall.From the entry on cue
  • Margaret is in the drawing room, thumping the life from some unfortunate sonata.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry pianiste
  • I stared at the enchanted dream catcher, my heart thumping, and prepared to spellcast it.2015, Tamara Grantham, chapter 29, in Dreamthief (Olive Kennedy, Fairy World MD; 1), [The Colony, Tex.]: Crimson Tree Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry spellcast
  • Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.2014 July 2, The Daily Telegraph, Sports Sect., p. 6. From the entry inside-out
  • A catman, on the other hand, is made slightly uncomfortable by spaniel eyes and devoted tail thumpings.1968, John Montgomery, “Are You a Catman?”, in The World of Cats, London; New York, N.Y.: Hamlyn Publishing Group, published 1970, →ISBN…. From the entry dogman
  • There was a sudden scrambling and thumping overhead and hot exclamations zephyred down to them.1908, Clarence E. Mulford, chapter 4, in The Coming of Hopalong Cassidy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 60. From the entry zephyr
  • It was a rhythmic thumping and squeaking, and I shuddered to think I was hearing the Ice Lady shaboinking someone.2019, Becky Clark, Foul Play on Words, Woodbury, M.N.: Midnight Ink, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry shaboink
  • There was carousing and jumping, roughhousing and tumping, deblousing and thumping, arousing and humping, and ever so much dowsing and pumping.2004, Sam Friedland, The Giant, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry deblouse
  • He cut a sorry figure after the thumping by England, but you can't keep a good man down.2000 April 3, Chris Hewett, “Rugby: Running talent will put life into Lions”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2018. From the entry you can't keep a good man down
  • I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 75. From the entry delve
  • An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163. From the entry quarter
  • I was led along to a big lanky thing, and with my heart thumping I was legged on to his back.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31. From the entry leg
  • As if to confirm his obituary for the martyrs of the movement, a massive thumping on taut calfskin drumheads now mingled with the trumpetry.2017, Günter Grass, The Tin Drum, page 107. From the entry trumpetry
  • The thumping bands, the badges, the pretty girls and all the time-honored foofaraw failed to charge up the Republican batteries to the sparking point.1944, Time, volume 44, page 15. From the entry foofaraw
  • Only under the most picayunely literal interpretation of rules can the thumping Kronwall laid on Havlat in Game 3 of the Western Conference final be considered interference.2009 May 24, Rosie DiManno, “`Gutless' hit is still reverberating”, in Toronto Star. From the entry picayunely
  • As Hill left, his colleagues on the foreign desk started to bang him out – the traditional printers' farewell that involves thumping the desk as loudly as possible.2008 June 26, “Hill and Dryden off with a bang”, in The Guardian. From the entry bang out
  • His heart was thumping harder than ever, and it was impossible to tell if the sickish, pukey feeling deep down in his belly was relief or terror.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger. From the entry sickish
  • Yet this spectator can consider himself unlucky, and not just because the sharp-eared security somehow heard his "baldist" abuse above the cacophonous thumping from the now omnipresent "fan activation" speakers.2019 Richard Hinds, "AFL's stance on crowd behaviour and umpire abuse leaves fans confused", ABC News Australia (June 15, 2019). From the entry baldist

Meaning of thumping

  1. adjective Exceptional in some degree.
  2. adverb Exceptionally. Very.
  3. noun A dull, heavy sound.

Full definition of thumping

Questions about thumping in a sentence

How do you use thumping in a sentence?
Thumping is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.”
What is a short sentence with thumping?
“Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping on drive.”
What does thumping mean?
Thumping means exceptional in some degree.

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