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    Use "thumping" in a sentence

    thumping example sentences

    thumping


    1. Her heart raced, thumping against her ribs fit to split them asunder


    2. of heavy shouldered travellers and of thumping cab boots,


    3. thumping the arm rest, shouting


    4. They were suffering from the combined effects of thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that accompany deeds such as the one they proposed to execute that morning


    5. As we skirt the woodland, a loud thumping noise attacks my ears; Sefir registers her distrust of the noise by skipping sideways across the track


    6. I was in a lather of sweat and my heart was thumping louder than the music


    7. ” He held up his hand and made a fist thumping his chest, “That is what we call ourselves Commander; we are the Ogatu


    8. The family ate supper in tired silence, after which Helen washed up, Ken accompanied Lucy to the main road and Alan lay down on his bed with a motorbike magazine and the latest hard-ass bass lines thumping through his stereo headphones


    9. thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that


    10. Peter lets us in, welcoming me with a kiss on the cheek and thumping his brother as usual

    11. magazine and the latest hard-ass bass lines thumping through his


    12. Little was worth risking a thumping


    13. his thumping heart finally subsided he noticed a


    14. In Billy’s field of vision, in the image of the world that he carries with him as he sinks onto his knees by the mortuary door, Leona waves to him from the trolley and starts to tap her left foot in time to the beat of the music that is thumping through his throbbing temples


    15. break down and begin thumping the ground with his fists,


    16. thumping sound that silenced the crowd into fear of fatal injury


    17. ‘Absolutely!’ said the younger Guillaume, thumping


    18. guilty ewe and gave it a savage thumping with his staff


    19. Zarko knew what he had to do, but his heart was thumping in his chest and he had a slight tremble


    20. The Praefect was lost in the murmur of the camp and the thumping and clopping hooves of the horse as it galloped away

    21. Danny's heart was thumping madly and even Ben, who in times of stress tended to retreat further into himself, looked panicked


    22. She didn't even look up as they strode in, thumping their noisy boots on the scattered flagstones in front of her


    23. The titties, Danny noted, his heart thumping wildly within him, were very large, very round and stood straight out from her chest


    24. Regardless, my heart was already thumping in my chest


    25. She could hear each thumping heartbeat as she moved without stirring the air


    26. Raiya got up from her chair, her heart thumping, adrenalin coursing – doubtless in futile preparation


    27. Her heart was thumping against her ribs


    28. From one cell there was a soft weeping and an eerie incessant thumping


    29. He heard his heart, a great thumping engine in the cavern of his chest, straining against


    30. Sandra gave one last frantic tug and managed to free herself, but before she could move the cat was on her, thumping into her chest, knocking her backwards against the barbed wire

    31. But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals


    32. ” She shuffled around the cell and located—by thumping her knee painfully into it—a bench set into the wall opposite the door


    33. The boom of a gunshot through the door had Terry’s heart thumping in his chest and he wondered for a moment whether he’d been shot, but realised it was just the sudden rush of adrenaline


    34. “That was Terry,” she whispered through dry lips, her heart still thumping at how close he’d come to falling from the rising helicopter


    35. But Broshee, too shocked to move, stood rooted to the spot, her heart thumping in her chest


    36. A strange, screaming, thumping, sort of sound issued from the engine compartment and I ducked as the bonnet shot high into the air, quickly followed by bits and pieces of the engine: pistons, tappets, valves and big-ends: filters, shafts, cogs and pulley-wheels, all cascading heavenwards in a shower of iridescent alloy


    37. Loud thumping is still alive and the


    38. “Fuck!” The single expletive was followed by the sound of thumping feet


    39. His heart was thumping in his chest as though it were trying to break out


    40. An asymmetrical thumping beat got chicks off

    41. His heart was thumping so hard that he could feel the arteries pounding in his neck


    42. What rigid anti Communists are often confused about is their belief that anything less than chest thumping and blustery calls for war means one is weak or not sufficiently anti Communist enough


    43. Instantly my heart was thumping and I was running for the stairs


    44. What’s happened?” I shouted, thumping down to the hall


    45. They’d screamed and shouted, thumping off the sides of the vehicle as they tried to fight off the aliens


    46. My heart was thumping loudly as I gently grabbed the receding doorknob and followed it inward


    47. The music had a syncopated, throbbing, thumping bass-line


    48. When I was woken by Rosie thumping my shoulder, there was no Singh and not a single blowfly in my mouth


    49. “After you?” Raul's heart was thumping madly


    50. She was just as excited, her heart thumping wildly within her chest









































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    Synonyms for "thumping"

    clump clunk thud thump thumping banging humongous walloping whopping

    "thumping" definitions

    a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)


    (used informally) very large