Example Sentences

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It’s a Thursday night and West Coast rap anthems are thumping over the sound system.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

Gargoyles and other blackened edifices of Parliament are thumping to the ground.

From Economist • Jul. 16, 2015

Historians, diplomats and politicians are thumping their heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soldiers are still marching; flags are flying; drums are thumping and it is all to the tune of Victory for the Revolutionists.

From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Little, Frances, [pseud.]

Loud in the nearest camp the little drummers and fifers are thumping away at "Bonnie Lass o' Gawrie."

From A War-Time Wooing A Story by King, Charles