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The sharp, quick sound of one hard thing hitting another hard (or rubber or leather) thing, especially sports equipment such as a bat hitting a ball.
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Hordes of shadow people, adult and child, milled from one end of this yellowing old room to the other, stopping to hunch over assorted fantasy devices. The noise was stunning, a garble of mechanical exclamation, the twock twock of the air hockey games […]
Spring is the twong! twock! of the tennis court and a new crack jagging along the concrete. Spring is pants cuffs filled with new clipped grass.
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The faint words trailed off to the soft twock of wood on leather. Philp squinted up at the slate gray clouds scudding in from the Bay. "Best we hurry if we mean to finish the last hole without a soaking, for there promises to be a spot of rain […] "
Flying through the turnstiles, our fists were already clenched, in my mind I could already hear the crunch of knuckle on tooth, the doof of forehead on nose and the twock of boot on head. But as it turned out, that's all […]
The summer went flying swiftly by with the twock of a bat hitting a baseball, or the spong of a tennis ball hitting the hard clay court, followed by an aggressive grunt (preferably Ami's). Speaking of which, I did see Ami a few times […]
A twang; the sharp, quick sound an arrow being shot (and a bowstring vibrating) or hitting something hard.
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[…] he offered Olivia the bow. […] Twock! “Dead center!” “What skill,” cried Cara, with a clap of her hands. “What luck,” riposted her cousin. What fun. Olivia stilled the quivering bowstring with her thumb but it was not quite so easy to control the twitch of her lips. […]
All other sound was buried in the heavy twock of longbows, and the hiss and thud of Merron arrows seeking and finding their target. The soldiers' limp bodies tumbled to the water with mighty splashes. Their blood washed downstream […]