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Usage examples of thud.

The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.

The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.

The remains of their aviso, now in two sections, thudding down either side of the ship, careered into them, the jagged edges of wood cutting flesh and the sheer force of the impact breaking bones.

The bondsman strode directly to the conference table, placing his briefcase on it with a resounding thud.

Patrol boats moved lazily in crisscross patterns, trailing explosive charges that boomed and thudded through the ocean.

Their wheezing breath was loud in the shuttered quiet of the street, but he could hear the snarling brabble of voices not far off and the thudding sound of feet.

His heart thudding with anticipation, Bubber turned the handle of the bell.

With sickening thuds, axes joined the cacophonous din of death and cleaved helms, opened skulls, spilled brains.

Anne dropped her heavy glass to shatter on the marble hearth and ran from the room, the sounds of her clunky boots thudding on the stairs gradually fading to silence.

Stamping and hopping about, suddenly more cheerful because of the sheer silliness of what she was doing, she started dancing with the sunbeams, kicking up swirls of strawdust, until she slipped and landed on her coccyx with a thud that jarred her brain.

A renewed flurry of spears and quarrels thudded against the cog, finding few targets.

The dalesman hit the floor with a muffled thud, his blood mixing with the dregs of the spilled wine.

A bullet whistled through the waving folds of the black cloak and thudded into the opened door of the safe, a foot from Driller Borson.

By the time he reached the Fauces Suburae his heart was thudding, and every part of him wanted to turn uphill, ride at the gallop to his home to make sure his family was unharmed.

Arthur could hear the thuds as the Fetchers threw themselves against the exit.