thwack

How To Use thwack In A Sentence

• The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects.
• The cop carried a stick, ready to thwack anybody who offended his ear or eye.
• Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
• Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
• ‘I hate that,’ she mumbled as she thwacked the ball.
• Racquet connected with ball with an almighty thwack.
• I heard the thwack of the whip against the horse's side.
• What they forgot to take into account, however, is that you do not hear the primary charge of a rifle being fired if you are more than 100 metres from it, you only hear the "thwack" or "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, followed by a MUTED primary charge thump (weapon firing). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Again Nick jumped and this time, as it passed, he gave the bull a great thwack on its rump with the sign. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
• How about video of the owie he suffered when he thwacked his head on the backboard on an alley-oop late in the Los Angeles Clippers' 98-90 victory over Minnesota? Blake Griffin smacks his head on the backboard