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thunk

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Recent Examples of thunk Founded in the mid-19th century as a grocery store in Greenwich Village, the bar retains a patina of its early years—the dim interior, wood walls, the merciful lack of thunka-thunk music. — Harrison Hill, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025 The finale, which aired in December 2022, landed with a startling thunk on the side of a boat. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 For those who miss the ritual of a cocktail—the thunk of ice against a beautiful tumbler, the pop, the fizz, and the raising of the glass—there are more and more substitutes every day, and some feel truly festive. — Jessica Iredale, airmail.news, 12 Feb. 2025 The paper input tray and cartridge access door don’t feel flimsy or especially fragile, and the outer cabinet yields a satisfactory thunk sound when tapped with extra force. — David English, PCMAG, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thunk

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Noun

The thunder sound was a combination of wobbling window of shades of the ’40s to achieve that old school thunder sound that was layered in with some newer thunderclap sounds.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
But nothing could compare to the thunderclap meeting of two A-list titans that was Cruise cheesing with Sesame Street stars Elmo and Cookie Monster on the sidelines.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026

Definition of thunderclap

Noun

Their hiring boom has drawn a new wave of tech workers to San Francisco and its commuter suburbs and sent them into an already tight housing market.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Whenever there is a technological breakthrough like AI, or the internet and telecom boom of the 1990s, there is massive speculation.

— Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of boom

Noun

Construction vehicles beeped and chugged, and the intermittent buzz of saws mixed with the clang of heavy equipment.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of clang

Noun

TreVeyon Henderson covered 12 yards on a wham run, then 18 more on a misdirection toss where fullback Jack Westover and right guard Mike Onwenu presented false keys that indicated an inside run while Henderson zipped outside.

— Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
There’s an understood language of action that marries really close-up, sharp inserts, the propulsion of rapid editing, wham-bam sound effects, and visual carnage to create excitement.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2025

Definition of wham

Noun

Nick, 33, started with a moment from the first Camp Rock, recalling the morning the cast came up with the now-famous stomp-and-clap sequence.

— Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
The Golf Channel would always be playing in the background; the soft claps were the soundtrack to our slow Saturdays.

— Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of clap

Noun

The San Jose Poetry Festival opens Sunday night with a poetry slam event featuring Richmond poet Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez at Wheelhouse of Willow Glen, 1173 Lincoln Ave.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026
Just ask Wisconsin’s neighbor Michigan, which last week saw what seemed like a slam-dunk Democratic contest for Senate turn into a squeaker.

— Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of slam

Noun

Though Bridges’ clank to conclude the evening was hardly the reason for the defeat, the possession was exemplary of a rare issue for New York, one of the league’s cleverest and most unselfish squads.

— Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Instead, Wembanyama delivered a clank.

— Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

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