The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this…

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back…

— John Barrow

“My name,' said the mattress, 'is Zem. We could discuss the weather a little.' Marvin paused again in his weary circular pplod. 'The dew,'…

— Douglas Adams

“That’s a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.”

— Douglas Adams

“I recoiled with a thud of recognition.”

— Genie Frisbee

“The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it…go postal? Treat this as a…

— Terry Pratchett

The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a…

— Anna Akhmatova

“He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed.”

— Kristen Ashley

“There was a click. There was a noise like a partridge. There was a thud. There was silence.”

— Terry Pratchett

“A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.”

— Gary Corby

“When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat.”

— David Adams Richards

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice. Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief.…

— Terry Pratchett

“A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway. * The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.”

— Terry Pratchett

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— James Herriot