How To Use Thwack In A Sentence
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The nice thwack of the club hitting the ball is one of the few, if only, notable effects.
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The cop carried a stick, ready to thwack anybody who offended his ear or eye.
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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.
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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
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‘I hate that,’ she mumbled as she thwacked the ball.
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Racquet connected with ball with an almighty thwack.
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I heard the thwack of the whip against the horse's side.
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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).
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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
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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
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For a few short weeks each autumn, in playgrounds across the land, the tinny buzz of the Nokia and the iPod is supplanted by the sound of youngsters thwacking their nuts.
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The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter.
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It may not be long before the sound of willow thwacking leather reverberates across the middle kingdom.
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‘We've offered to improve the road, but the Navy won't let us,’ he shouted above the chirping of tiny frogs and the thwack of thick tropic brush against the windows.
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The latest heavyweight report investigating pay inequalities between the genders landed last week, with a huge thwack, on news editors' desks up and down the country.
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He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
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He felt a sting in his left ear but didn't really feel the blow, just heard the thwack.
SPIDERTOWN
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I’ll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Sir Michael Peat has been described as the prince's right-hand man, leaving me to think that Charles should be using his left hand to give him a good thwack about the head.
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He could just see a black shape flapping off, a bird as a large as a wolfhound at the least, thwacking the air with huge wings.
A TIME OF WAR
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A bit off to the east I can hear a dull ‘thwack’ sound as one of my hunting partners builds himself a little blind.
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From a sheath mounted next to the foremast he pulled a long sword and, laying the smoke down on an air vent, with one thwack cut off the end.
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Then the woodcutter let his axe fly— Thwack! Everyone heard it.
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It's no longer the crisp "thwack" of the persimmon, or the cool "ping" of the stainless steel.
About.com Golf
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Behind him, he heard the even thwack, thwack, thwack of the dye block slapped down on the cloth squares.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around.
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Those cute floppy paws are like that because they're spring-loaded killing machines, ideal for thwacking seals to death.
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Mea culpa 'thwack', mea culpa 'thwack' (oo that feels good), mea culpa 'thwack'
Army Rumour Service
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Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
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Employing one of London's brainiest chefs, Blueprint Café's Jeremy Lee, as "cookery consultant" has meant that, though the preparation of food is mimed, every knife stroke, whisk flick and thwack of an omelet pan is the correct gesture; there can never have been a movement director with more to do than Aline David in this production.
As Fresh as the First Day
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The rest of the travel sector was also under the weather with Stagecoach (LSE: SGC) thwacked by a poor performance at its US coach operation.
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And then I thwacked my left knee on the washing machine this afternoon while I was cleaning out the rat cage, and it is all red and lumpy and it, too, hurts when I walk on it.
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The only sound is the thwack of a Corsican mountain breeze.
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According to Tristan Jakob-Hoff, Chailly has taken his own pencil to the score and replaced the single-note Thwack! with a "short, anacrusis before each note - 'buh-duh-DUM!
ArchitectureChicago PLUS
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She was thwacking a button on the wall with all her might, and cursing wildly under her breath.
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They're coming up shortly after a federal judge thwacked the Pentagon's knuckles.
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Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
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With a huge backlift, he tried to hit the ball - thwack!
Times, Sunday Times
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By cob's body, I'll hamper, bethwack, and belabour all the devils, now I have some vine-leaves in my shoes.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
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Jones; “but that will not happen, unless you had the same birchen argument to convince me.” — “Then I must tell you plainly,” said Thwackum, “I am resolved to discover the wicked wretch.” — “And I must tell you plainly,” returned Jones, “I am resolved you shall not.”
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Mugabe is often seen sipping tea, eating cake and clapping at Harare Sports Club while revelling in the magical thwack of leather against willow.
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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.
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Find a picnic spot under the trees and sozzle the day away to the thwack of leather on willow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jumping on top of him, she began thwacking him with it in every possible place - the head, the face, the chest, the arms, the ears, the legs, the torso, everywhere.
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Behind him, he heard the even thwack, thwack, thwack of the dye block slapped down on the cloth squares.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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For they binde the heade, and the fiete of the dead together with witthes of Paliurus, and then setting it vp vpon some hilly place, haue a good sporte to all to bethwacke it with stones, vntle they lie heaped ouer the corps.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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At the last moment she turned parallel to the chukar's line of flight and hit it from behind with the solid "thwack" of a large-caliber bullet striking flesh.
The Coffin Dancer
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That opening sentence originally read ‘Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning’ - a limp travesty of the polished version.
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The keys have a feel somewhere between the Pro and the 101, with a solid click but not the thwack of the IBM.
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Bernie continued madly thwacking my back with his hand, while waving the other in the air and shrieking, ‘She's alive!’
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He felt a sting in his left ear but didn't really feel the blow, just heard the thwack.
SPIDERTOWN
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Perhaps a well-timed thwack with a swatter works?
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Before I knew it, I was trying my hand on the local real-life links and thwacking a white ball with a metal stick right down a fairway.
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Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again.
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Find a picnic spot under the trees and sozzle the day away to the thwack of leather on willow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crowning touch was added to this delirious moment of festival by the simply scandalous distribution of golden coin, _golden_ mind you, which attendants clothed in every colour of an Egyptian sunset, and mounted upon diminutive, but pure bred donkeys, threw right and left with no stinting hand, to the distribution of which largesse responded shrill laughter, and still shriller cries, and thwack of stick on dark brown pate and cries of pain upon the meeting of youthful ivories in the aged ankle or wrist.
Desert Love
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As he settled himself in the saddle for a long ride he heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of
Waifs and Strays Part 1
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I was swimming along, and as I was making the turn at lap 46, a hand thwacked me on the head.
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He has no probs getting around at night thwacking the bad guys who terrorise his neighbourhood.
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Then did this fool of a husband and his mad wife join together, and, falling on the doctor and the surgeon, did so scratch, bethwack, and bang them that they were left half dead upon the place, so furious were the blows which they received.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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There's something really enjoyable about chunking the carriage back and forth, hearing the satisfying thwack of type on paper and platen - it's cool.
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So she took a stick and started thwacking my thighs like she was threshing wheat.
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She thwacked a lonesome pebble into the until now deathly still waters of the picturesque campus lake with a black platform trainer which could have had a brick wedged between sole and tread but at least made her an inch taller.
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But they told us they did as they ought, seeing their design was to breech, lash, and bethwack Fortune.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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At the last second, she twisted her blade so the flat of it hit his head with a resounding 'thwack'.
Ultimate List
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Four minutes after making his entrance, the wafer-like winger was thwacking Neilson from behind to concede a preventable penalty.
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Again, aside from the thwack of the balls, it was superbly quiet.
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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
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Nestled among a thick area of pine trees and beautiful red and purple flowers, Harrington blasted his second shot only to hear a thumping "thwack" a moment later as his ball slammed into a tree.
Undefined
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Isaacs' fruitful usage of the ball meant the score soon multiplied to 2-as he royally thwacked a loose ball into the corner of the net.
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Defiant newsagent Tina Harfield sent a would-be armed robber on his bike after thwacking him with an axe handle.
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Guys are dumb, it takes us a couple of thwacks before we stop hitting our heads on walls.
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I spot him near a door to what looks like the kitchen, chatting with a woman somewhere near my age who laughs at something he's said and gives him a playful thwack on the arm that has flirtation written all over it.
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I listened to the thwack of the metal balls.
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Sophia thwacked her hard on her back, and asked her concernedly, ‘Are you alright?’
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The sound of repeated thwacks lures you to the roasted-duck counter, where a small man with a big cleaver reduces a whole mahogany-colored bird into a pile of steamy, mouthwatering chunks in seconds.
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During that half awake dozing between thwacks, I often drift into lurid dreams.
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And then the smart thwack of her hand on my shoulder and I was ‘it’.
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Sitting at the computer I saw something large and dark fall past my peripheral vision followed by a dull thwack.
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Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
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A good meaty "thwack" means the thrower needs to go hide for a few seconds.
H3 quick review
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But just as the company is getting back to normalcy, another downturn in traveller numbers following the recent events in the US thwacked it again.
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Diversity might include free-thinking, liberal-minded schools, alongside those that favour the firm thwack of the three Rs above all else.
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The resulting ‘thwack’ echoes louder than a thousand spankings.
