Examples of thwack in a Sentence
Verb
A book fell off the shelf and thwacked me on the head.
thwacked the growling dog on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper
Noun
he gave the ball a hard thwack with the bat and sent it deep into the outfield
even from the top of the bleachers we could hear the loud thwack of the ball being hit
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
The back door flung open, then thwacked shut.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
Every week a green pickup truck pulled into our driveway and dumped onto the blacktop a stack of flattened newspapers, which landed with a loud thwack, along with a box of about a million powdery, dry, green rubber bands.
—Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
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Verb
Modern readers may take heart in the fact that there are many excellent critics thwacking through the slop—albeit with freelance machetes, on newfangled platforms.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
The back door flung open, then thwacked shut.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
There’s something unnerving about the mundane thwack of the rhythms.
—Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
Every week a green pickup truck pulled into our driveway and dumped onto the blacktop a stack of flattened newspapers, which landed with a loud thwack, along with a box of about a million powdery, dry, green rubber bands.
—Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
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“Thwack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thwack. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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