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Thudding

adjective

Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. Synonym: dull. "Thudding bullets"

Thud

verb

Make a dull sound. Synonym: thump.

Strike with a dull sound.

Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants. Synonyms: crump, scrunch.

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"Thudding" Quotes from Famous Books

... a few minutes to gather enough wood in the centre of the square for a gigantic bonfire, and when all the people of Lancaster were drawn into the square by the blaze, the boys started their display of fireworks. The astonished people heard one dull thudding report after another, saw a ball of colored fire flaming high in the air, then a burst of myriad sparks and a rain of stars. They were not used to seeing sky-rockets, most of them had never heard that there were such things, but they were delighted with them, ...

— Historic Boyhoods • Rupert Sargent Holland

... bubbling rhythmically between his gleaming white teeth, the Senior Surgeon studied his new "solid gold bed" and his new sage green wall-paper and his new dust-colored rug, to the faint, far-away accompaniment of soft thudding feet, and a girl's laugh, and a child's prattle, and the tink-tink-tinkle of glass,—china,—silver,—all scurrying consciously to the service of ...

— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... miles in the rear there rose suddenly a thudding percussive cataract of sound. The earth trembled like some frightened animal that has been driven into ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... weight in his stirrup checked him. He came to a stop again. Then he wanted to nicker in protest, but he found that he could not. He was too weak to utter sound. So he stood there, his eyes upon the little gray and her rider, watching them hurtling toward the grove. Then the thudding of hoofs came to his ears from the rear, and, slowly turning, he saw a group of horsemen riding wearily—one hatless; another with flaying quirt; a third with smoking carbine; a fourth, a large man, smooth and red of face, riding heavily—all ...

— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

... was the gloom of these thoughts that the foreman did not hear the thudding hoofs of a horse which trotted up through the trees. Not until horse and rider appeared in the clearing was Hervey roused and then in the first glance by the size and the tossing head of the approaching pony, he recognized the horse of ...

— Alcatraz • Max Brand

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