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• v  make a dull sound
• v  strike with a dull sound
  Bullets were thudding against the wall
• v  make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
• s  not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
  thudding bullets

• STREEP But I think older people had this dull, thudding pressure.
• I am a runner by nature, keenly attached to the mind-slowing demand of setting a pace and the sensation of my feet first thudding and then gliding over pavement.
• Wrapped in several layers of clothing, the fisherman was startled by splashing noises coming from underneath his craft, then alarmed by a recurring thudding sound, as though .

• thud
• thump
• crump
• scrunch
• dull

News & Articles

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• Helena native McCarvel living his dream as reporter at Wimbledon
  LONDON — I’ve been to Wimbledon dozens, if not hundreds of times before. In my parents’ alley behind our house in Helena, I spent spring, summer and fall days there, constantly thudding a tennis ball against a barnyard wall that my neighbors — so I thought — had made so smooth just for me.
  July 7, 2013 - Helena Independent Record

Quotes

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• Terrell Owens in SportingNews.com
  It was a good two days of work,Owens said. "It gets a little grueling, kind of thudding up a little bit, but on (Saturday) you get to actually pad it up and really go after it."
• Alex Salmond in Scotsman
  Mr Salmond added: "In Glasgow East, he spent the whole time saying he wouldn't break convention and join the campaign. Now he's running scared - and he has good reason to be. On the issues that matter, jobs, and with energy bills thudding through...
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in guardian.co.uk
  There's nothing that quite prepares you to take that first hit, but the scout team, the guys on the practice squad, were doing a pretty good job of 'thudding' me up, going after the ball, to make sure that when I do get some surprise hits or hits... Steven Jackson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Jackson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFSTLYJyWsB_6S9bambxSC2QYVSUA Belleville News Democrat http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bnd.com/sports/rams/story/461078.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHdSVwhE-PoIZDcDCSFWrBZxUeaLw Sep 5, 2008 99953 132703 thug It matters nothing at all whether Fidel, Raúl or any other thug is named head of anything in Cuba," Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican member of Congress who was born in Havana, said.