How to Use thunk in a Sentence

thunk

noun

• The book landed on the floor with a thunk.
• There’s a hiss and a thunk as the onboard jacks drop the car to the ground.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Then again, by the same mark, the model couldn’t be called under-thunk.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2014
• The Jutland opens with a thunk, like a vault door, and stays open via a liner lock.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• There would be, for her, no thrilling thunk of a landing jay, no chickadee wings fanning her ears.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
• Who woulda thunk that a simple backlink on a website would change the world?
  — Steve Stauss, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2019
• Little wonder the doors close with the same pleasing thunk as those on the Merc.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
• The venue fell silent as his final shot sailed toward the target, hitting with a thunk.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
• Not twigs, mind you, but big, heavy limbs that would fall straight down with a thunk and a shoosh of dead leaves onto my front lawn.
  — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
• In this strangest of seasons -- who’d-a-thunk the Chiefs would be lousy and the Jaguars real good?
  — Greg Cote january 1, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
• Brightly colored targets downrange bore the brunt with a muffled thunk.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
• Cahill shrugged and repositioned the boulder with a percussive thunk.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• Would the ratchety ker-thunk of mid-aughts Campagnolo feel like going back to a flip phone?
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 23 May 2021
• In today's Scream, all the doors lock shut with a reassuring thunk via smartphone app.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• Light changes happen with the occasional metallic ssssh-thunk.
  — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
• The pick planted with a reassuring thunk, locking into the ice.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2022
• Hounds bay, horses tumble, and riders hit the ground with spectacular thunks.
  — June Thomas, Slate Magazine, 13 Apr. 2017
• 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
• But the cat loses its grip and plummets into the net and crash bag, landing with a thunk that almost tears the net from its captors’ hands.
  — Peter Radetsky, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Whip pan, accented with the anxious thunk thunk thunk of Jon Batiste’s percussive score.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024
• The fast tempo isn't the lazy thunk of a guard's boots or even the confident, slightly bored stride of a lawyer's dark tan Derby shoes.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 June 2026
• Who woulda thunk 10 years ago that the biggest trend maker of our generation would be the eyebrow?
  — Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire, 20 Feb. 2018
• Voices and polka music filter into the cool evening air, punctuated by the dull thunk of boots on wooden steps.
  — Kate Siber, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• With the soft thunk of a bass guitar, one spotlight flickered on to illuminate Mary Weiss, the band’s leader.
  — Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2024
• Who woulda thunk Charlie Sheen would be, in this moment, one of the more representative people?
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Anyone mailing multiple letters will no longer hear the satisfying shuffle and thunk of envelopes hitting the pile inside.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• There is the thunk of a bowl filled with schlag landing on a bare wood table when dessert is served, and soon after, the softer tap-tap-tap of waxy chocolate coins in gold foil dropped one at a time on top of the check.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• There is something assuring and memorable about grabbing the large steering wheel, sliding the shifter through its gates, gliding over rough roads and feeling the secure thunk of the doors.
  — Casey Williams, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• 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