Examples of thunk in a Sentence

Noun The book landed on the floor with a thunk.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In the quiet of evening, after competition has ended, the venue echoes with a scudding sound of practice throws and the heavy thunk of takeouts. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022 In today's Scream, all the doors lock shut with a reassuring thunk via smartphone app. — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022 The pick planted with a reassuring thunk, locking into the ice. — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2022 The optional self-opening doors welcome the driver with an eerily silent sweep, then seal you in with a gentle thunk. — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2021 Would the ratchety ker-thunk of mid-aughts Campagnolo feel like going back to a flip phone? — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 23 May 2021 With two outs and Christian Vazquez at third, Cordero got a high fastball from Michael Wacha and went the other way with it off the wall with a loud thunk. — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2021 Yeek wrote and produced everything himself, favoring thunk-clap drum programming that would fit in a mid-2000s radio hit from Scott Storch. — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2021 One of the problems with an empty stadium is that there is little ambient sound to dampen the sickening thunk of a fastball glancing off a batting helmet. — Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Designing a new car is the easy bit; building it to scale with doors that thunk nicely is really hard. — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2022 With an expert throw — not too hard, not too soft — Bobby Ragot, 22, released a small hatchet, watched it spin and then thunk into a soft pine target. — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2019 To put it bluntly: At its best NYFW felt a smidgen like London Fashion Week, and who’d have thunk it? — Sally Singer, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017 See More

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