How to Use thump in a Sentence

thump

1 of 2 verb
  • The boat thumped against the side of the pier.
  • Pam thumps down to earth, all four chair legs on the floor.
    — Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Fists thumped against the table.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • A couple of good back slaps and thumps from the adoring crowd.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The heartbeat of the club is now thumping.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Is your heart thumping like an 808 kick drum?
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Applause, at the end, came in the form of paddles thumped against hulls.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • My heart was thumping rapidly, and my ears were ringing.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The air was filled with cigar smoke, champagne spray, thumping music and team chants.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • And the thump, thump, thumping of her brother’s hands pounding a heavy bag.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • As if to punctuate that, thunder thumped again.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 3 May 2026
  • For the second game in a row, the Brewers had thumped the Cubs.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And Ragland could be called on to continue that run-thumping role.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Patrons young and old danced to thumping music that drowned out the chatter in the room.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Soon, old-school West Coast rap was thumping through the speakers.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Mary was the one who tried too hard at piano practice and still thumped the piano, the one who was too earnest.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • By then the music has changed too, with a thumping, percussive sound.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The Seahawks just thumped the 49ers and are perhaps the league’s hottest team.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Shoppers should be free to thump a melon without being mined for data.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Somewhere off the coast of Nantucket, the bass on the pool deck was thumping.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Bar are the places to go for thumping music and boisterous parties.
    — Kareena Gianani, National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Music thumped from booths and food trucks offering refreshing treats in the heat drew long lines.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023
  • All the while, club music continued to thump from inside the building.
    — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Bishop Moore thumped Tavares 41-14.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Pastrnak’s long-distance one-timer thumped off Dan Vladar’s glove.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Get ready for a night out, hear music thumping in your ear, yell across the bar for a drink and bump into people on the dance floor.
    — Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • From the beanbag chair the man could hear the little suitcases thump heavily down the stairs.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • House music thumped in the background like the heartbeat of a menacing jungle cat.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026
  • For one long, sparkly week, engines thrum like thunder as pre-, during- and after-parties thump.
    — Eric Barton, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But to have him at Fenway Park caused his heart to thump, left him smiling ear to ear and brought tears to his eyes.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2022

thump

2 of 2 noun
  • The ball landed with a thump.
  • And most of it with a fist pump, chest thump or a leap into the air.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Northwest of it, a thump of heavy, wet snow is likely to set up.
    — Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Collins brings some thump to the four spot at no cost after next season.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The crack of rifles and the dull thump of grenades announced their progress.
    — NBC News, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Peel hit the kicker, and sailed into the back of the truck with a thump.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The thump of shelling echoed in the distance along with the chatter of gunfire.
    — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But what was that sudden thump, and those low, faint, whispering sounds?
    — Joshua Ferris, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • The result is that kick drums offer a nice thump, while bass guitars are smooth and heavy.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 16 Dec. 2021
  • And the thump, thump, thumping of her brother’s hands pounding a heavy bag.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Though ashen, the convex steel form still resonates to the rhythmic thump of her hands.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Lance went low, but Simmons met him with a vicious thump that stopped him in his tracks.
    — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The German skied into the air and landed in the pit with a thump.
    — Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The lid is secured by a magnet closure that opens with an easy access thump slot.
    — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Brace your middle finger firmly with your thumb and give the melon a good thump.
    — David Holloway, al, 5 July 2023
  • Toronto can shop Justin Smoak to teams looking for thump at first base.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 June 2019
  • The tide was at our knees when my fears shifted from the bottom to dodging loose boards and the thump of salmon.
    — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The thump of artillery rounds exploding in the distance echoed through the trees.
    — The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Echo Sub to the mix, which will restore all the missing thump the Dot lacks.
    — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The water covered its front windows now and, with each thump, crept higher up their legs.
    — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Yet, in an age of increasing thumps, buzzes and hums, noise is invading even this dusty turf.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Play it at night, when every creak and thump from the overhead air ducts will scare the bejesus out of you.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Moments later, a bass thump sounded in the distance.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Facebook’s initial foray into the smart hub market has been a bit of a soft thump.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The windshield repels the huddled form and the thump on the pavement sounds like a rebuke.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Not only does the tail thump, but the body also rolls evenly from side to side when the lure is rigged on a jighead.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The first day of full pads arrived at Grand Park on Tuesday with a thump.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The three-pointer earned him a ferocious glare and big heart thump from Durant.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2018
  • The driver’s side opens, releasing the thump of music and a tall, lean figure.
    — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • The thump of music pulsates again from the city’s nightclubs, and some of its raucous bars have reopened.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2021

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