THUMP in a Sentence

Learn THUMP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
33 example sentences for THUMP, such as:
1. He felt a thump on his shoulder.
2. My heart was thumping with happiness.
3. Dave thumped the table in frustration.
4. The old man thumpes noisily along the passage.
5. Mulroney swept to power with a thumping majority.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of THUMP
thump
 v.  hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
 n.  a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Mary's heart began to thump and her hands to shake a little in her delight and excitement.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Her heart began to thump and she felt herself changing into a stiff, plain, silent child again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  I set perfectly still then, listening to my heart thump, and I reckon I didn't draw a breath while it thumped a hundred.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
4  She heard the thump- thump of his wooden leg in the hall outside the office and then he stopped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  And there's a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
6  Had Eustacia received the stone full in the bosom her heart could not have given a more decided thump.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
7  I could only hear the heavy splashing thump of the stern-wheel and the patter of these things.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
8  There was a loud thump, but it wasn't really a loud noise.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In I
9  She was returning: of course my heart thumped with impatience against the iron rails I leant upon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  "There's more ways of killing a cat than choking him to death with butter," giggled Melanie when the whiskered old man had thumped down the stairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
11  For a while she thumped the gates so vigorously as to set all the dogs barking; then the gates stiffly opened, and admitted this unwieldy phenomenon of the road.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
12  He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in opening the door.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
13  slammed the door immediately shut, and even thumped on it with his fists as if that would shut it all the firmer.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
14  Her heart acted very queerly, beating regularly for several minutes and then thumping so loudly and swiftly it almost made her sick at her stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  In spite of that last humiliation, his heart was thumping fast with triumph.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
Example Sentence:
1  The bass guitar began to thump so loudly that it resonated in my head.
2  She gave the television a good thump, and the picture came back.
3  He felt a thump on his shoulder.
4  She couldn't get her breath and had to be thumped on the back.
5  He thumped my shoulder affectionately, nearly knocking me over.
6  Dave thumped the table in frustration.
7  He was so angry that he thumped the table with his fist.
8  The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.
9  Mulroney swept to power with a thumping majority.
10  My heart was thumping with happiness.
11  The old man thumpes noisily along the passage.