thuds 1 of 2

plural of thud

thuds

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of thud

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for thuds
Noun
  • Pop princess Kylie Minogue landed some punches as Cammy White in the 1994 Street Fighter film.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The one-two-three judicial punches could risk the president's plans to deport as many as 1 million people per year.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rodgers took four sacks and three other hits, including multiple heavy blows.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Last March, Mariah The Scientist allegedly came to blows with Young Thug’s former lover, Cleopatra Dues, at an Atlanta lounge.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Here, Southern tradition collides with global polish, turning the midmorning meal into something far more dynamic than basic bacon and eggs.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Plasma gone in an instant RHIC accelerates beams of particles close to the speed of light and then collides them.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Touted as the second-highest fine ever levied by the board, many observers struggled to view it as anything but the gentlest of wrist slaps.
    DAVID AMSDEN, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • They were then categorized by behavior, including jumps, belly rolls, tail slaps, bow riding and even petting.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The steep new parking surcharge slams the brakes on that, hitting both visitors and the workers who would have served them.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Except Steven gets in a car wreck in episode two of season three, and trauma slams Belly and Jeremiah back together.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond clicks and swipes, leaders should anticipate a future of inner speech, intention markers, and neuro-physiological feedback.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • That set them up for a quick dispatch via a series of sword swipes.
    Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • At a single, two-minute dinner, Hermann Kafka smashes a cockroach while denigrating his son’s engagement to Felice Bauer before reiterating his distaste for Franz’s writing.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Excitement around the closing stretch is spilling onto the charts in the United Kingdom, as a wave of Coldplay smashes return and rise this frame.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • What happens if the AI wave crashes?
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Thuds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thuds. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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