Example Sentences

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They were missing two stellar opensides in Hamish Watson and Rory Darge and yet found a thumpingly good replacement in Luke Crosbie.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

The three-and-a-half-minute ad, tightly shot and thumpingly scored, features Ms. Hegar’s story of “opening, pushing, sometimes kicking through” doors in pursuit of her American dream.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2018

It's leaden, thumpingly obvious lines like this that will raise the simmering ire of fans of the Danish original, but the US version appears to be a very different beast.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2011

The motives for making a painting can be thumpingly straightforward: You see something, you try to reproduce it.

From Washington Post

On the wall behind the couch were two thumpingly grim African masks.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech