Example Sentences

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The week-long saga that began with a run on FTX, one of the largest crypto exchanges, and a failed takeover deal by arch-rival Binance has thumped an already struggling bitcoin and other tokens.

From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2022

Sidney Govou has thumped a couple of volleys into the side-netting for the hosts while Gonzalo Higuain just fails to control in the box for Real after a brilliant move full of flicks and tricks.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2010

For years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cupid has thumped you with his bird-bolt, certainly.

From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley

I see fate has thumped none of your original obstinacy out of you.

From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)