The sound of their sodden thwacking punctuated the dusk.

The engines whine louder and the thwacking of the chopper blades picks up.

The thwacking in the trees intensified.

It would be admirable if the Knicks played with panache en route to their ultimate thwacking.

Almost any kind of violence was encouraged, and the ultimate test of strength was the synchronized thwacking.

The sound intensified, coming closer: a steady droning now, punctuated by the rhythmic thwacking of solid matter beating air.

Whenever this thwacking occurs, though, Italy shuffle awkardly from foot to foot and stare at the floor.

By early afternoon, the thwacking of axes and the pounding of wooden mallets on end posts were sweet music to Kang.

At his best, such as the 70 that kick-started Surrey's comprehensive B&H thwacking of Middlesex, there are few sweeter timers of a drive in the land.

He is attracted to primeval timbres - the sounds of the wind, of wooden flutes and whining stringed instruments, or of a straightforwardly aggressive thwacking of pottery drums.

Subdued strings and wind figures suggest the constant movement of the jungle; bird songs and lion roars appear, and a slow, steady, grand-scale percussive thwacking lends the scenario a ritualistic touch.

Its fellows pushed away from it, terrified; the dogs growled and threatened, frantically containing the herd, and Will heard John Rowlands yelling, and the thwacking of his stick against the hard road.

An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan, but the vice-captain's overall form had not been all he would have wished, a reflection, perhaps, of a disenchanted soul.

But special mention too must be made of the film's excellent sound-effects team, which with a symphony of postsynchronous bone crunching and body thwacking has helped push the fight sequences to rare seat-jolting heights.

Blitz has a fast-forward quality as pawns quickly meet pawns; then bishops, rooks and queens circle, sidestep and attack each other in a moment, all punctuated by the rat-a-tat thwacking of the time clocks.

Actually, in the Druckman piece, which opened the program, the percussion scoring ranged from the most delicate tintinnabulations to full-throttle thwacking, and it was the texturing at the lighter end of that spectrum that proved most memorable.

Not only did it get that famous thwacking from John Wayne in John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952), Henry Fonda also found it similarly irresistible in another Wayne movie, Spencer's Mountain.

They bunch them up to their knees to gallop around, stir them like a witch's brew between their legs and, in unison, vigorously smooth them out - there is much loud thwacking of silk - as if for the Wedding March moment itself.

Los Angeles sisters Danielle, Este and Alana Haim sing proper vocals and play proper guitars and give their drums a right proper thwacking and don't try to do or be anything, they just let it happen.

But I guess I have always been a bit homesick for that old Democratic razzmatazz - hearty thwacking of Republicans, calling on Harry Truman and F.D.R. as witnesses and presumably enthusiastic absentee supporters, and all that.

Often 10 feet long, with a forked tongue and hinged jaw like a snake, a thwacking, heavy tail, sharp, sawlike teeth capable of quickly hacking a goat or deer into three or four digestible chunks, it is worth the short trek to its austere habitat.

"You two can thwack away at each other all night."

The boy with the stick came up behind the man and thwacked him across the back.

Now there's nothing left but to thwack away at each other until the bitter end.

Almost with the shot, Clyde's head thwacked the wall of the room.

Fans may not be used to poke or thwack anyone.

I heard what must have been its tail thwacking against a wall so hard the house shook.

He was thwacking hard, as they reeled out into the hall.

The dog sat in front of them, thwacking the stone with his tail.

I do not say 'thwack our general,' but he was always good enough for him.

He thwacked the bludgeon into the palm of his left hand.

Park shoots near post and it thwacks into the outside of the upright.

Steele only used to win by thwacking at me with the flat of the blade.

As Herb started to open the door of the limousine, someone thwacked him on the shoulder.

Impatiently, he picked up a newspaper and thwacked the front page.

This time, a bullet thwacked just above the door.

Commodore thwacked his big hand on the table, to emphasize the opinion.

It thwacked across Mack's back as he knelt beside his victim.

Sweeping above his sprawling form, the screened frame thwacked the house wall.

Then a helicopter thwacked out of the dawn sky.

You get the impression that the person doing the reading keeps thwacking his own Adam's apple.

The rubber-backed welcome mat thwacked into the street where he had been standing.

Rudy laid down his glass and thwacked the table.

He thwacked the floor and rolled over twice before he came to a stop against the wall.

Tam thwacked one hand upon the papers and reached for the telephone with the other.

The back of my head hit the house with a hard thwack.

He felt himself roll over, to land on his back with a hard thwack.

He took the hit with a dull thwack and went down.

Sarah brought the knife down into the bread with a thwack.

Just inside the door, he received a hearty thwack on the shoulder.

"Mouth," he called, and another dart hit its mark with a thwack.

Instead, he's off to Florida, and the classic thwack of wooden bats.

I slapped a hand against my chest with a meaty thwack.

They peppered the walls of the house behind his with a single loud thwack.

The kitchen echoed with the thwack of steel against hardwood.

Trish struck her several times more, each time a loud thwack!

Every beat hit the speakers with a thwack and then bounced back sharply.

A few seconds later, he heard the sharp thwack of bullets hitting the ground near him.

Taking careful aim she brought it down with a resounding thwack.

I felt the sudden thwack of fingers against the side of my head.

The thwack of balls was continual on the high school's tennis courts.

But put your ear to the fairway, and you will hear more than the thwack of golf balls.

The blade slanted into the meat with a wet thwack!

The satchel dropped to the ground with a thwack.

Nor had he come up with satisfactory answers to the koans- Thwack.

The thwack of her ball was answered by a loud thunk from the other side.

The rope lost its lifelike appearance as the end came down with a final thwack.

It hit with a dull thwack and slid soundlessly to the floor.

The blow landed with a meaty thwack and knocked the guy to the floor.

The dull thwack carried even above the Huey's engine noise.