Michael Patrick King

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.

American Writer

Fritz Kreisler

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Austrian Composer

Alan Menken

When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and I felt such embarrassment. Fast-forward, and it's a hit on Broadway, and I win a Tony for the score!

American Musician

Ronnie Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

English Musician

Jessie Cave

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

English Actress

John Barrow

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

American Politician

Rahm Emanuel

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

James Herriot

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

British Writer

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

American Athlete

Elizabeth Taylor

Used when describing the noise made by solid objects colliding.

Concrete Impact

Used to suggest the weight or intensity of the falling object.

Heavy Emphasis

The word 'thud' mimics the actual sound of impact, a feature called onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia

Emphasizes the outcome of an action involving contact and sound.

Action Result

Highlights movement and sound; often used in active scenes or narratives.

Dynamic Sound

The intensity or force of the impact can be felt through the sound.

Intensity Indicator

 forth with your joystick which is rumbling with haptic feedback the tree falls you see it fall you hear it fall and there's haptic feedback floor in the room that shakes with a thud when the tree hits the forest floor now the amazing thing about tree project is that players who were immersed in this virtual world for two minutes

Heal your brain with...

 here is that the pups are quite hungry and they're trying to encourage the adults of the pack to go off and go hunting oops sorry sir be ok didn't land on your foot you didn't let on your foot I just heard this thud that I could just imagine of metal water bottles landing on you ouch

Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...

 everything she has to say. Mixed in with chirping sonatas from high above is the constant thud of a machete chopping trees. Shakira's habitat in Colombia is being cut down, piece by piece, and if we don't work to protect the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin,

How to speak monkey: The...

 right after you hear it. When you listen to a story, your entire brain starts to light up. Each of your lobes will light up as your senses and your emotions are engaged. As I talk about a phone falling and hitting the ground with a thud

Karen Eber: How your...

 tipped off by a server as to who had cash and they would attack and rob you when you left so as we leave this bar I was attacked from behind from my perspective I didn't see anything at all I just heard and felt this deep thud in

How math saved my life PIPE...

 those people that are on the roof and are carrying rifles and Watts and boxes of ammunition that's right they're shooting at us so far we'll be shooting up but when it comes to worst we're not gonna sit in writing up thud

LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...

 so they want to build bigger buildings. What that results in is the thud, the dull thud of the same apartment building being built in every city across the world. And this is not only creating physical sameness,

How we can design...

 stop Claire said it knew you were coming she cuts three paper birds out of she cut out three paper birds and pasted them to the window to warn the bird away thud it Dov's suicidally again causing

Living in a shadow PIPE...

 The constant thud underneath your feet, the constrained space, and the monotony of going nowhere fast.

Thud