धप (en. Thud)

At 6:50 this morning, in Brooklyn, I was blasted out of a deep sleep by the sound of sledgehammers, soon followed by the thud of jackhammers and the rumble of the hydraulic motor that powered them, tearing up the sidewalk three feet from my window.

Police released a photo of the plane and reported that a resident of the town heard a "loud thud" in your garden, and then found the obscure object of yellow color.

Then there was another thud, a whoompf, and she was certain the ice slumped beneath her boots, but in millimeters, nearly imperceptible except for the awful sound.

If you have ever heard a thud in the middle of the night when your baby falls out of bed, you probably know the heart-stopping panic this can induce.

Ah, but then, with the almost audible thud of an email landing in the inbox, my heart sinks.

In it, Porter writes about the fans and their obsession with the thud of the ball on the floor, the slap of hands on leather, the swish of the net are music in his ears.