(1) 2.12am BST Pirates 3 - Reds 0, top of 4th Shin-Soo Choo is hit by a Liriano pitch, and that happens a lot - he led all of baseball in that esteemed category by being plunked 26 times.
(2) And plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened.
(3) Not boxing’s browbeaten but devoted fans, at least 300,000 of whom are sure to plunk down $75 for a fight no less one-sided than Death Star v Alderaan.
(4) It appeared, oddly, as though he was doing mostly nothing that afternoon, just clicking in slow, methodical plunks.
(5) A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.
(6) Read more As a cigarette packet designer, John Digianni, explains in an interview on the tobacco industry website Tobacco Today : “A cigarette package is part of a smoker’s clothing, and when he saunters into a bar and plunks it down, he makes a statement about himself.
(7) Even worse, shortstop Hanley Ramirez, so important to the LA lineup, still has rib issues after being plunked by Joe Kelly in Game One and missing Game Two - he'll be in the lineup but can he be effective?
Thud
Definition:
(n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(2) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(3) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
(4) The ball thudded off the woodwork and Arsenal rocked on their heels.
(5) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
(6) A wild lunge fortunately didn’t fully connect with the Barcelona forward – had it done so he could have been seriously injured – but it still sent him tumbling into the air before thudding into the Bernabéu turf.
(7) Martin drops the bullet in a plastic pan with a hollow thud.
(8) In the 1970s, David Rosenhan and seven other persons were hospitalized in twelve different psychiatric hospitals, pretending having heard voices uttering such words as void, hollow, thud.
(9) His neck muscles were tensed, the ball thudded off his forehead and English football’s man-of-the-moment had another extraordinary story in an increasingly bulging file.
(10) There's an almighty thud as a piece of rock hits the coffin, everyone gasps and one of them says: "Bloody 'ell, Barry!
(11) The guns thudded continuously and there was a new rattling sound.
(12) The event is ostensibly to promote tourism, but it’s also thudding domestic propaganda.
(13) And then shortly thereafter you could hear the planes overhead and you could feel the bombs thudding, thudding, thudding.
(14) They had barely threatened before Carroll attacked Aaron Cresswell’s cross from the left brilliantly, thudding a header low to David Ospina’s left, and the roof nearly flew off Upton Park when the striker equalised in stoppage time.
(15) Flying over the same spot again a few days later, Commander Jason Tieman, a reservist in the National Coastguard, explains over the thudding din of the 19-seater Sikorsky helicopter that the big problem was spotting the oil: "It's very hard to see from the air.
(16) The first half was absorbing without being eventful, but after 45 minutes of the usual derby thud and blunder two things were evident.
(17) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
(18) Schmeichel had produced two fine saves to deny Danny Welbeck after he had replaced Rooney on the hour and England can also look back on the chance, set up by the overlapping Ashley Cole, that Sterling thudded against a post during one of their few moves of real incision in the first half.
(19) - a thudding, sample-filled track about the malign influence of popular culture on black communities, as a defining influence.
(20) *THUD* Updated at 10.26pm GMT 10.14pm GMT It’s all over until next year!