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Example sentences for "thudded"

Lexicographically close words:
thsang; thu; thuch; thuck; thud; thudding; thuds; thue; thug; thugs
  1. He felt sure that it was not Ten Eyck's door that had thudded so slyly shut.

  2. The swinging door thudded softly, and Willie raised himself in his chair, but he could not quell the buffets of his sobs, and he dared not put his handkerchief to his eyes.

  3. Nothing else mattered--neither the frightening force of the knees that thudded into his body nor the hooked fingers that reached for his eyes to tear them out.

  4. The guard saluted dumbly, and after checking his proximity detector screens he slipped out and the heavy portal thudded shut behind him.

  5. Just because Slashaway gets thumped and thudded all over by the medical staff twice a week doesn't mean he can take--" The stratoship lurched suddenly.

  6. But for the packs and bales that had been thrown against the wheels, the inmates of the corral would all have fallen under the rain of arrows that now slatted and thudded in.

  7. A dozen arrows stood sunk into the sides of the wagons inside the park, hundreds had thudded into the outer sides, nearest the enemy.

  8. The Indian drums at Laramie thudded through the dark.

  9. He was a trifle more than an hour in felling a four-inch tree; just before it fell he thudded the ground a few times with his tail and ran away.

  10. Again the ball sped toward the plate and Drake struck at it after it had passed him and thudded into the catcher's glove.

  11. With one tremendous effort he flung himself to the ground and made a fallaway slide for the plate, just touching it with his finger tips, as the ball thudded into the catcher's mitt.

  12. A year later a big bull-fly thudded at the screen door of Carter's cabin in vain efforts to enter and take toll of Helen's white flesh.

  13. The man on the bed muttered thickly, shifting his position; and something thudded upon the floor, and rolled to my feet.

  14. I had one instant's sickening sense of danger as the front wheels bumped and thudded over the ties.

  15. There was a violent shock as Blizzard thudded into the bandit's horse.

  16. But his bullet head went back with a jerk, as the Texan's hard fist thudded heavily on his cheek bone.

  17. One, raked with lead through both shoulders, thudded from his pony to the ground.

  18. The blade had thudded into his forearm and sliced deeply upward.

  19. Splinters flew from the logs as bullets thudded into them.

  20. His arms circled the intruder, and the two heavy bodies thudded to the floor.

  21. There was a rattle of cutlery on the floor, but there were still several pieces of battered kitchenware inside when the box thudded to the table.

  22. Ken watched Sandy, and his heart thudded in sympathy.

  23. The horsemen had thudded on; out from the timber into the road the Indians, one hundred, two hundred, swarmed and met the footmen with the tomahawk.

  24. While the captain was still hanging on grittily, and expecting to feel a blow, down thudded the hatchet, right between his hands, into the Netop's crown.

  25. The vane motor stuttered and stopped, the plane floor dropped away from beneath him, then thudded against something.

  26. The words thudded in the pilot's ear-phones.

  27. He flung his hat on the floor and thudded into his seat.

  28. The last belt and six-shooter thudded on the floor just as Loudon perceived that the wounded citizen in the street was endeavouring to crawl away.

  29. It thudded heavily upon the boards of the floor an instant later, a shriek of fear mingling with the sound as he went down in a heap from a vicious, deadening blow from Trevison's fist.

  30. Thrice thus they met, but at the fourth essay, Rose sudden shout of wonder and dismay, For, smitten sore through riven shield, Sir Gui Thudded to earth there motionless to lie.

  31. Orphan asked, a little anxiously, as another roaring explosion thudded the air, not quite so near as the last.

  32. The Orphan and his guns' crews on the wind'ard side would feel the ship quiver as a wave thudded against the casemate below them, and then had just time to duck their heads before millions of icy particles of spray soused viciously over them.

  33. Then a shot came from a point to the north of the trees and thudded into the carcass of the horse.

  34. Bits of earth struck him, and thudded on the ground below.

  35. The monstrous body thudded against the metal hull behind them.

  36. His foot thudded softly into a small feathered body there in the sparse grass, and he stooped to pick it up.

  37. Migul turned, and a rain of arrows thudded harmlessly against its metal body.

  38. Some thudded into the thick shields, and the shields bristled with the feathered ends.

  39. Feet thudded past his wood-pile, hasty figures brushed against it, as the best warriors of the village bolted for the timber, to circle until they found the tracks of their enemy.

  40. These thudded into the grass or crashed into the bushes close beside her.

  41. Though braced into position by numerous cables it started backward, drawing them as tight as iron bars, while the wheels thudded heavily on their runners.

  42. Tom's heart thudded as the general set his horse three paces forward.

  43. For an echoing roar broke from the cliff front just below the point they had been scanning, and something heavy and vicious and convincing thudded hard with a "klopf" against a boulder just to the right of Helston.

  44. Now and then a slide of snow from these, dislodged by the focussed rays of the midday sun, thudded to the ground, with a ghostly break upon the silence of the woodland.

  45. So Tommy waited until the plane swooped low--almost to the level of the laboratory roof--and a thickly padded package thudded to the ground.

  46. Then another thudded into one of the wooden beams supporting the armor.

  47. The prince exploded with laughter, and before Hawksworth caught the quick motion of his arm, the knife thudded deeply into the wooden door behind him.

  48. His entire body would perceptibly tense as the drummer began a cycle, then it would pulse and relax the instant the cycle thudded to a resolution.

  49. His heavy boot, backed by the power of a hundred and ninety pounds of brawn, thudded into the Indian's chest.

  50. Some of the heavy bullets bored through between logs and thudded wickedly into rafters and roof poles within.

  51. Arrows thudded thickly into the logs masking them.

  52. As he spoke, arrows thudded into the ground and the water.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thudded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.