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Example sentences for "dull thud"

  • The next instant there came the dull thud of falling snow-crust, followed by the jarring thump of a heavy body.

  • There followed a grinding sound, a shout of warning, then a dull thud.

  • In a second there came a dull thud on the other side of it.

  • Soon afterwards we heard a dull thud, as if some heavy body had jumped over the boma.

  • There was a dull thud as the stone struck the Pumpkin and sent it back a few paces; but it quickly came to a standstill, and began at once to cover the ground it had lost.

  • Just then there was a hoarse shriek of terror, a wild yell from the crowd, for a curious rushing rumble was heard, a dull thud, and another cloud of dust came rolling out, looking like smoke as it mingled with the fire.

  • There's the signal," cried Fitz suddenly, as a ball of smoke darted out from the front of the fort, followed by a dull thud.

  • In the distance they could see moving figures and the flash of rifles, while every few seconds there was a dull thud or a curious scuttling noise on the walls of the gallery as bullets flew by them.

  • A dull thud followed as a bullet struck one of the huts and perforated it, and then a dozen weapons went off, the somewhat aged guardians of the camp losing their heads and blazing away without aim and without authority.

  • If this place had been as you think, the bottom would be covered with ashes like those we saw glide down, and that stone would have fallen with a dull thud.

  • Ned started up, his action following the ejaculation belying his words, for all of a sudden from near at hand came a dull thud as if a heavy blow had been struck, followed by what sounded in Ned's ears like a shriek of agony.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blank paper; class legislation; common talk; cover with; done here; dull black; dull brown; dull page; dull reddish; dull sermon; dull thud; dull voice; dull white; dull yellow; dull yellowish; heart shall; looking little; lower voice; psychic life; revolutionary movement; right bank; single thought; steadily increasing; strong contrast; thine inheritance; whither away