There was a terrible thud and a high shrieking sound that made my heart hammer even harder.

The sounds, the desperate plea, the terrible thud, echoed in her head over the hammering of the workmen.

It made a terrible thud.

My vision blurring, everything going dark as I saw the dinosaur stumbling, and then going down with a terrible thud to the earth less than a dozen feet away!

Then Henry shook himself, as it seemed, quite lightly, and Gandesi landed on his back on the floor with a terrible thud and lay gasping.

I'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy, and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud.

There was a terrible thud.

I poured some coffee, read the paper, opened a book and, when I heard the first terrible thud, went into the bathroom to find him sprawled, still stark naked.

Suddenly all space wrenched horribly with a nauseating, terrible thud that seemed to strain at the very anchors of the Universe.

It had suddenly gone through with a terrible thud.