What is "thumped"

Usage examples of "thumped".

Abruptly he was engulfed in Lytol's rough embrace, his back soundly thumped when the man released him.

She paused, scowled, lifted her hand to adjust dials, at first calmly, but when nothing seemed to improve, she thumped the screen in several places.

And he sang and stamped and rocked and thumped the tiller bar with his hands, inventing new rhythms, and altogether enjoying the activity when he suddenly realized that something was coming out of the darkness ahead of him, large and white, and someone was yelling.

A reflexive jerk, a scream tearing itself from her throat, and Lunzie's corpse slipped away, thumped on the edge of the pier, and splashed into the water.

Tell me, Lunzie, will this self,’ and he thumped himself on the chest, ‘destroy in your memory the self I was?

He was all the way in and the doors had thumped firmly behind him, when he realized what he saw.

On the porch to greet him, Damia and Afra saw the giant removal unit, the jagged hull piece suspended from massive cables, as it thumped ponderously east towards the naval research facility.

Kincaid put a helpful arm around her waist as she gracelessly thumped down the steps ami turned toward her quarters.

In fact, Ninety took out a square of doth and was about to mop his face when Zainal thumped him.

Lord Warbret said as he thumped D'ram's shoulder encouragingly, "but I've all the faith in the world in G'dened and Barnath.

He stood politely back while Fandarel gently thumped the Harper off balance, sticking out a hamlike hand to steady his friend.

In the next moment he was on his feet, being congratulated and enthusiastically thumped for the success of his daring stunt.

Other men, at tables, thought the song a proper tale, and thumped their mugs as they sang along.

His smile transformed into a sneer as he thumped the butt of his spear to the dirt.

She thumped Nick's ribs with her heels, urging him into a gallop just as Brin and Peter caught up with her.