The deep thuds of the working engine are soon heard, and the hose is turned upon the farm-stable.
The horses stood with heads drooping and tails hugged closely to them, and the deep, loud thuds of the working engines stationed near the burning building seemed echoed by those at work farther off.
Voices came from behind him; then he heard two heavy thuds in succession; the men had jumped into the tunnel.
But the thuds continued with monotonous regularity.
Armstrong scrambled up; Warrender was following him, when the thuds suddenly ceased.
Presently he heard the faint, slow, regular thuds of oars in the rowlocks, then low voices.
Loud thuds on the floor above me, and a heavy thud against the door dividing my room (No.
Directly she did so, a series of thuds in the neighbourhood of the wall, followed by the crunch of footsteps along the gravel path, sounded from without, and the tops of five heads suddenly appeared at the open window.
Then came three thuds on the floor by the window-seat, and the triumvirate stood facing him in varying stages of confusion.
The thuds of big guns are frequent, we hear the booming of field artillery in salvos, and the shrill ripple of rifles is almost incessant.
Artillery could be heard southward at intervals pounding away with dull thuds like the beats of time on a big drum muffled.
There the folds of the sea fall in velvety thuds ever so gentle, ever so regular.
Soon sodden thudsfrom inside the saloon and red dust pouring out the door told that Steele was attacking the walls of Martin's place.
But the rattle inside Sampson's room was mingling with little dull thudsof falling dirt.
The heavy lumbering and grating of wagons and carts came from Welford Road, and from the tow-path the dull heavy thuds of clumsy horses' feet.
The window stood open, the noise of the carts and wagons came from Welford Road, and the dull heavy thuds of the clumsy horses' hoofs from the tow-path.
Then two, and often three, great geese came hurtling downwards, to fall with resounding thuds behind.
He came from the direction where Bud and the foreman had seen the slim wisp of smoke about an hour before, and as he rode, the man shouted above the thundering thuds of his horse's hoofs: "Help!
They heard the thuds as the shovel was dashed against the roof, and listened to clods of earth and debris falling.
A succession of welcoming thuds accompanied the tirade.
Then he flung Chance backward and struck him blows that sent his head with sodden thuds against the log wall.
The heavy thuds of many hoofs evened into a roar that diminished as it rushed away.
Then came the clang beside him, and with a series of ominous thuds a body rolled down the stairs into the hall below.
From somewhere behind the house came a deep-throated, snarling roar; then the clang of a padlock shooting home in metal, followed by a series of heavy thuds as if some big animal was hurling itself against the bars of a cage.
The thuds of the typical Nibelung rhythm resound, and lead to the last crashing chord of this eventful act.
There was a swishing repeated three times and three thuds and twists of white on heads and shoulders just before her.
Low voices of men mingled with thuds and cracking of straps and flopping of saddles on the ground.
Screams of glee and frolic, shouts of thin laughter, and pattering feet with little thuds interspersed.
After that the artillery slowed down to a normal rate of fire, a steady succession of bangs and thuds and rumblings, that, after the roaring tempest of noise of the past few minutes, were no more than comparative quiet.
Were they footsteps, those thuds on the ear, like the first rumble of a distant thunder-cloud?
A fury of sound hurled at them, thuds and scratchings rang on the armor.
There were loud thuds against the hull that shook the framework of the ship.
We heard now, mingled with the fury and hate of shouts reverberating from the placid sails, mighty thuds and crashes, as though it had been a combat with clubs and battle-axes.
We rolled rapidly along the reeking scuppers, amongst the feet of a lot of men who were hopping about us in the greatest excitement, the hearty thuds of blows, aimed with all sorts of weapons, just missing my head.
Both bums now caught it hot, the stinging thuds helped us to roll over one another, so that neither escaped the incessant attack of dear Mamma.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thuds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
