thwacks 1 of 2

plural of thwack

thwacks

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of thwack

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for thwacks
Noun
  • However, videos of a booing crowd with a few claps quickly made it to social media.
    Sequoia Carrillo, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Ted slaps him in the face, twice.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Anthony thinks his fiancé wants a mother more than a partner, so Giuseppe slaps a pie into his face?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Her brunette hair and bangs were styled into subtle waves that fell past her shoulders.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Her bangs were brushed away from her eyes, too, leaving the middle of her forehead completely naked.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Harrison stabs Prater with the needle and knocks the billionaire out.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • When cosmic rays — including, in part, plain old protons from the Sun’s solar wind — strike the Moon, the recoil from those heavy elements knocks them into an excited state.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 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
Noun
  • Minsky argued that during booms, free market ideology permeates the mindset of regulators.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Muss was 76 then and had endured his share of South Florida busts and booms.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Andor hates him on sight, which only intensifies when Berend smacks around his mother and tears up the apartment looking for proof that Klára has deceived the boy with idealized fictions about his origins.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Vocals are sped up into squiggles, instruments are reversed and gated, percussion smacks you in the face and then suddenly vanishes.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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
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“Thwacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thwacks. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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