Thuds

Instead, the audience is frequently left sitting in the uncomfortable near-silence of staticky tape, broken occasionally by the whispers of the children, thuds, disembodied voices and grotesquely whimsical music of cartoons playing on the television.

Devine hits back with a nasty short ball that thuds into the batter’s shoulder.

Police heard "thuds" hitting their police vehicles from missiles including rocks and potatoes, and Shirbon was identified.

The court heard that Officer PC Harrison was in a police van when he heard a "number of particularly loud thuds" from the rear and that Shirbon was in the vicinity and as he passed had thrown objects at the police van.

For visitors to Duke University Hospital’s main pharmacy, the irregular rhythm of chirps, thuds and whooshes from the pneumatic tube system is background noise.

Roger and son Lee had headed into the bush for the roar with Pip loyally by their side when, just on dusk, she plummeted over a steep bluff, leaving Lee in disbelief as he heard “three distinct thuds” as she disappeared.

He thought that the music was "nicely composed", but that the sound effects were "all taps and thuds".