thumpings

Today, still suffering from PTSD over their 2006 and 2008 election "thumpings" the Republicans are now playing to their narrow rump state of hardcore Rush Limbaugh acolytes.

Joseph A. Palermo: Republicans Playing a 1993 Strategy 2009

Gives you nothing back but tumbles, wipeouts, thumpings, scares.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

And heard the meaty thumpings, like beating a grain sack

thomas mcgrath | letters to an imaginary friend « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

The fella who is replacing our back door was on time all considerate-like, too, and after spending several hours being alarmed at the thumpings and bumpings, the doglet is bored with him.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

And the shooter was a guy already part of a major excessive force lawsuit in which a schizophrenic man James Chasse died after a pile-on, with twenty-six breaks in sixteen ribs, and other assorted thumpings, for the crime of suspicion of public urination.

Bean Bag Steve Perry 2009

And the shooter was a guy already part of a major excessive force lawsuit in which a schizophrenic man James Chasse died after a pile-on, with twenty-six breaks in sixteen ribs, and other assorted thumpings, for the crime of suspicion of public urination.

Archive 2009-11-01 Steve Perry 2009

Then a noise reached him through the unformed nothingness that surrounded him: the small soft thumpings of something that flapped, flailed, and struggled.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Then a noise reached him through the unformed nothingness that surrounded him: the small soft thumpings of something that flapped, flailed, and struggled.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Immediately, she felt two rhythmic thumpings in the air.

Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

However, if I want to read in the living room, or even watch TV, I'm subjected to thumpings and loud conversation and drunken laughter, all of which, again, makes it difficult to concentrate.

noise jlundberg 2006