thudded

Rain thudded on the roof of the canon's cottage, but the thickly woven thatching kept the room dry, except for one or two small places in the corners where water first pooled and then trickled in slow fat drops to the beaten earth floor.

Excerpt: Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross 1996

We sat there on the floor, Diana and I, and read the little book together, while the rain thudded against the window panes.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

A gusty wind beat against the long grey windows, and between the gusts the heavy rain thudded on the roof above.

The Fire Within 1913

The albino had to sway to one side, staggered, and fell to the deck, rolling as the broadsword thudded into the deck, just missing his shoulder.

The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

The albino had to sway to one side, staggered, and fell to the deck, rolling as the broadsword thudded into the deck, just missing his shoulder.

The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

Then the light disappeared, and the door thudded shut.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

I turned around, and my heart thudded in my chest.

Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

The body of one of the yeshiva students thudded to the basement floor, his jeans and T-shirt soaked with blood.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Boots thudded back over the bridge above him toward the drilling platform.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

Except Gideon saw no animals, no monkeys or snakes, nothing but mosquitoes and moths nearly as big as his hand, which thudded around in the trees above him.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011