Noun The book hit the floor with a thud. The ball landed with a thud. I heard a heavy thud on the roof. Verb The ball thudded against the side of the house. the snowball thudded against the side of my car
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Noun
The capper that The Gang's actual move is to storm past the confused robber and clerk with their arms stuffed with looted snack food brings us back to Philly with a satisfying and inevitable thud. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2022 The message landed with a thud on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points for the day. Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 26 Aug. 2022 The ball flew off of Dylan Holmes' bat with a loud thud, bringing Millington's side to their feet and causing the Cardinals' Trinity Fessler to round the bases during Saturday's Division 3 state title game. Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2022 But their season ended with a thud on Causeway Street. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022 Last year began with promise but ended with a thud: 18 games over .500 on Aug. 10, the Padres were four games under by season’s end.New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 After passing under my window, the THUD-THud-thud faded until the street was quiet again. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 And of course, that distinctive double-thud, the ball being kicked and the ball hitting the arm of Terrence Cody. Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 5 Aug. 2022 His kicks echo with a thud throughout CrossCountry Mortgage Campus. Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 30 July 2022
Verb
Whenever your fox releases a ladder, unlocks a door, flips a switch, or activates a bridge, the resulting animations heave and thud with seemingly ancient mechanisms. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022 After going up to challenge a shot near the rim late in the second quarter, Forrest fell awkwardly and banged his head hard on the court, the sickening thud audible throughout the arena. Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2021 The subwoofers thud like mortar fire landing in the back seat. Dan Neil, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021 The protest hub in downtown Beirut thudded with music from a half-dozen different stages as if to compete with the city’s famous nightclubs. Vivian Yee, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020 Stocks thudded to their worst day since the epic Black Monday crash in 1987 amid mounting investor fears over the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump's assessment that the U.S. may be heading toward recession. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2020 Inside the facility, the sound of baseballs thudding against bats fills the roughly 10,000 square-foot space. Jared Diamond, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020 Although stocks briefly revived in the afternoon when the Federal Reserve Bank of New York moved to provide more short-term funding to lenders, markets quickly thudded lower. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2020 As in the passage where Aster beats Hirut, certain words recur (split, spin, bloom, awkward, frantic), and hearts tend to pound and thud a lot. Namwali Serpell, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2019 See More