Thumps is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Thumps in a sentence
Related words
Thumps meaning
plural of thump
Using Thumps
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of thump
- In the example corpus, thumps often appears in combinations such as: and thumps, the thumps, thumps were.
Context around Thumps
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thumps
- In this selection, "thumps" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, measured, consistently, drum, ahmed, home and across stand out and add context to how "thumps" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a stick thumps it on and and the thumps. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thumps" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thumps
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kevin De Bruyne with thumps home his second of the afternoon! (11 words)
Still a disappointing season from someone who consistently thumps the ball. (11 words)
Pope then charges Siraj and thumps a sprakling stiraght drive for four. (12 words)
Upon closer inspection to the north, i.e. where most of the thumps were heard, a kind of an ashen cloud was seen near the horizon, which kept getting smaller and more transparent and possibly by around 2–3 p.m. completely disappeared. (43 words)
History A variation of the format in the form of a children's game was described in 1929. citation In the game of Buff, a child with a stick thumps it on the ground, and the dialogue ensues: :Knock, knock! (40 words)
However, the signal from a continuous wave transmitter did not have any such inherent modulation and Morse Code from one of those would only be heard as a series of clicks or thumps. (33 words)
Kevin De Bruyne with thumps home his second of the afternoon! (11 words)
History A variation of the format in the form of a children's game was described in 1929. citation In the game of Buff, a child with a stick thumps it on the ground, and the dialogue ensues: :Knock, knock! (40 words)
Example sentences (18)
The issue now is that if there is a meeting or a film screening downstairs when the ballet is performing or rehearsing, the thumps thumps are problematic.
But Hope can see an over -pitched ball when it arrives and thumps Ahmed for six.
She bobs her leg and thumps her foot on the stone floor: clap, clap, clap.
They’ll also bang at our cat, who has arthritic hips and thumps around flat-footed.
Adam Zampa serves a juicy full toss, on middle, Babar Azam skips down the track and thumps it towards the long on fence for a boundary.
Kevin De Bruyne with thumps home his second of the afternoon!
Pope then charges Siraj and thumps a sprakling stiraght drive for four.
Inside, in the glittering world of rattling roulette balls and plopping playing cards, the muffled whumps and thumps were a temporary diversion.
The vibration of the thumps of rotor blades began to be heard.
Not the fancy flicks and the neat tricks, but the blocks and the bumps, the headers and the thumps.
On Saturday, Day 2 of the Davis Cup World Group Playoff, the Serbians were the ones reaping the rewards from their measured thumps across the net.
Still a disappointing season from someone who consistently thumps the ball.
The walls, painted black and adorned with dark chalk drawings and posters advertising upcoming black metal shows, pulse in time with deafening kick drum thumps.
After 1.5–2 minutes after one of the "barrages" six more thumps were heard, like cannon firing, but individual, loud and accompanied by tremors.
History A variation of the format in the form of a children's game was described in 1929. citation In the game of Buff, a child with a stick thumps it on the ground, and the dialogue ensues: :Knock, knock!
However, the signal from a continuous wave transmitter did not have any such inherent modulation and Morse Code from one of those would only be heard as a series of clicks or thumps.
Then the interval between the first and the third thumps were accompanied by an unusual underground rattle, similar to a railway upon which dozens of trains are travelling at the same time.
Upon closer inspection to the north, i.e. where most of the thumps were heard, a kind of an ashen cloud was seen near the horizon, which kept getting smaller and more transparent and possibly by around 2–3 p.m. completely disappeared.
Common combinations with thumps
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and thumps 6×
- the thumps 4×
- thumps were 4×
- thumps thumps 2×
- thumps it 2×