How to Use thud in a Sentence

thud

1 of 2 noun

• The book hit the floor with a thud.
• I heard a heavy thud on the roof.
• The ball landed with a thud.
• Some of the gags, like some of the actors, land with a bit of a thud.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• Tracer rounds lit up the night sky, with the thud of blasts heard in the videos.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
• The world was in a panic, and the video landed with a thud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• Mark slammed the axe down, and his severed hand fell to the floor with a thud.
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
• Soon enough the sharp cracking sound will turn to a dull thud.
  — Farokh Talati, Bon Appétit, 3 Feb. 2023
• The Kings’ eight-game team point streak ended with a thud.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Sound art is light on the ground where granite and bronze can land with a thud.
  — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• For Democrats this week, a new CNN poll landed with a thud.
  — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• The scene landed with a thud and caught a ton of flak after the film’s release.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 July 2021
• The rope — which is tied to a shopping cart full of tools, a pillow and clothes — lands with a thud.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
• For the second straight season, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers opened with a thud.
  — Rob Maaddi, ajc, 14 Sep. 2022
• These terms land on me with a dull thud, a cruel almost.
  — Safia Elhillo, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2021
• The season appeared to hit the ground with a thud when Cousins went down with a torn Achilles in Week 8 against the Packers.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The thud of a bouncing ball and the swish of the net fueled Curry to push through fatigue and get up more shots.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2022
• Then the big cat lunges forward and slams its sizable paws against the window with a thud.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
• Instead of a sharp, clicky noise, the button produces a soft thud.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2022
• For some, the choice is made simpler by every thud of a Russian shell.
  — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022
• But their attempts at slapstick and self-aware jokes land with a dull thud.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• After 15 minutes, at around 11 p.m., Black heard through the phone a grunt, a thud and then silence.
  — Moe Clark, ProPublica, 5 Dec. 2022
• The loud wheeze of air brakes proceeds a concussive thud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• Use a stud finder or tap along the wall to determine where the hollow sound changes to a thud.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2021
• Davis landed on the court with a hard thud after catching a pass in the final minute.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 30 May 2021
• The first one arrived with a muted ferocity, hit the back of my head, and fell to the floor with a thud.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The encounter started with a big thud that Walls and her father heard from inside the house.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• As Seacrest was speaking on stage, a thud was heard from behind the judges’ table.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 May 2022
• It’s been a jarring contrast, two springs connected by a season that thundered out of the gate and ended with a thud.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Coconuts drop with a thud around me and begonia blossoms spiral slowly.
  — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024

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thud

2 of 2 verb

• The ball thudded against the side of the house.
• But there's substance to this car beyond the way the doors thud home when they're shut.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
• There were trays of madeleines and a stage with thudding speakers.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 3 July 2019
• Distant thuds and the sound of revving engines can be heard as the footage pans wildly.
  — Matthew Mulligan, NBC News, 8 June 2023
• The subwoofers thud like mortar fire landing in the back seat.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
• For many who had already seen the full image, the shaking ground was enough to still evoke that thudding noise.
  — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 4 Dec. 2017
• Each tackle brings a burst of dust as players thud against bare earth and scattered rocks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Much of it was also kept to thud tackling, where players are only wrapped up, not brought to the ground.
  — Joey Kaufman, Orange County Register, 15 Apr. 2017
• In terms of appeal beyond the faithful, this edition of this great even thudded like a ball against a wall.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The cheerleaders bound up and down the field to the sound of football players’ helmets thudding against each other.
  — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2019
• After a silent auction and James Bond-themed casino games, the event’s main feature burst to life amid thudding bass.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2017
• 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
• His chip was perfectly placed for Mina, who thudded the header home from about 5 yards out.
  — Joel Petterson, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• The tiny ultralight thudded and bounced but remained gamely intact, then came to a stop.
  — Caroline Paul, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
• The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire, thudding bazookas and something else.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• By dusk two helicopters were thudding across the valley.
  — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Boots thudded down the dungeon hallway, the rhythmic beat of several guards’ steps.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• As Brown broke free on a fast break, his errant alley-oop pass intended for Tatum thudded off the backboard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• That shot tied the score at 7, but the ones that followed were more essential, as other Celtics thudded one shot after another off the rim.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Its standard 18-inch wheel-and-tire combo provides a smoother and quieter ride than the RS model which wears large 21-inchers and thudded over bumpy roads.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
• Gervonta Davis glided over the canvas to a thudding hip-hop beat, pumping his gloved fists in rapid-fire patterns.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 23 July 2019
• Spotters, their eyes trained on the cliff, blasted air horns to signal an imminent danger if and when more medicine balls tumbled down, thudding to a stop on the road.
  — Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
• Kershaw stranded the runners when Contreras thudded a curve into the ground.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• And the run did not stop there, as Denver thudded one jump shot off the rim after another in the fourth, and the Celtics used their speed and defense to surge upcourt on fast breaks and erase what was once a massive deficit.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Bullets kept snapping off the pavement, thudding into flesh.
  — Joe Mozingo, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Oct. 2017
• And then, just when expectations had been re-arranged and raised beyond reason, the Mariners thudded back to earth with a sustained stretch of miserable play.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
• The inflation report thudded onto Wall Street along with a batch of other data painting a mixed picture of the economy.
  — Stan Choe, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• 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
• But his opponent, Subriel Matías, pounded Dadashev’s body with heavy, thudding shots.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019

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