Heart throbs

Usage examples of thumps.

He heard grumbling muffled thumps far away, like thunder without reverberations.

The cessation of the shouts in his ears enabled him to hear another noise: muffled harsh thumps in an irregular pattern.

In the forest of the earthworm sol(tiers, the artillery thumps had been fainter than in the village.

They appeared to be heading straight for the front, yet the only gunfire thumps came from the left, to the south.

We could hear crashing sounds, heavy thumps, and furious snarling somewhere on the other side.

After that, I don't remember much more than pain, and a series of dull, hard thumps on my chest.

Nothing but mechanical noise, none of the irregular thumps and gurgles that indicated an organic sapient.

Neither did they after one of Zainal's thumps, and Kris was no exception though she didn't think he whacked her as hard as he did Gino, Chuck, Mack, or Ninety.

The thumps made an out-of-tempo counterpoint to the Harper's song and brought her furious glances from the head table.

Kindan had learned how to keep his pace count going while he was thinking or even talking—mostly through painful thumps from Nuella when he forgot.

I punched him again, harder, and before I knew it, was hammering him in earnest, my fists making small dull thumps against his plaid.

It started aga-in, no more than a few tentative thumps, and then quit altogether.

The whacks of firing crossbows seemed to come from everywhere and were echoed by the loud splintering thumps of quarrels slamming into the deck and the crates around her.

Red-faced and wrathful, his fists lashed out, making ugly sounding thumps when he scored.

Jaw gritted at the grunts and thumps of fists into flesh, I watched the leader instead, wanting to know whom we faced.