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Thuds in a sentence

Related words

Thuds | Thud

Thuds meaning

plural of thud

Using Thuds

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of thud

Context around Thuds

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

children 1× heard 1× loud 1× chirps 1× distinct 1×

Often after:

disembodied 1× hitting 1×

Sentence patterns with Thuds

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

ball that thuds into the 1× of chirps thuds and whooshes 1× particularly loud thuds from the 1× police heard thuds hitting their 1× taps and thuds 1× the children thuds disembodied voices 1× three distinct thuds as she 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

devine hits back 1× for visitors to 1× he thought that 1× instead the audience 1× police heard thuds 1× roger and son 1×

Common sentence endings:

as she disappeared 1× batter s shoulder 1× is background noise 1× on the television 1× shirbon was identified 1× taps and thuds 1×

Words around Thuds

Just before it in the word index:

thudpucker 2 thudding 9 thudded 5 thud 48 thucydides 78 thuc 2

Just after it in the word index:

thue 2 thuener 42 thuet 3 thufir 4 thug 229 thuggee 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaba 10 aafc 10 aaib 10 aalbers 10 abbate 10 abbesses 10

Corpus analysis for Thuds

  • In this selection, "thuds" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, children, heard, loud, disembodied and hitting stand out and add context to how "thuds" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include ball that thuds into the and of chirps thuds and whooshes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "thuds" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with thuds

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Devine hits back with a nasty short ball that thuds into the batter’s shoulder. (15 words)

Police heard "thuds" hitting their police vehicles from missiles including rocks and potatoes, and Shirbon was identified. (17 words)

He thought that the music was "nicely composed", but that the sound effects were "all taps and thuds". (18 words)

Longer example sentences

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. (42 words)

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. (41 words)

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. (36 words)

Example sentences (7)

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".

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "thuds" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 7 example sentences with the word "thuds" from authentic English texts.
What does "thuds" mean?
Thuds means: plural of thud
How many example sentences with "thuds" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 7 example sentences with "thuds", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.