| Comfortingly, as I type this, I can feel the whump of a helicopter circling overhead. |
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| You hear both main tires pop as you whump to the ground short of the runway. |
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| A muffled whump sounded and a streak left the launcher and struck the target. |
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| In between, announcements from Radio Rwanda mark timelines, while the soft whump of blades felling trees adds a barely felt chill. |
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| One touch to the ground and Scarback beats his wings with a muffled whump and soars high, perhaps five feet into the air, as his opponent rises to meet him. |
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| Just then, the Malian butcher raised his ax and brought it down with a whump to hack off a hunk of beef. |
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| I thrill to the skirl of the bagpipes and the whump, whump, whump of the big bass drums. |
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| Minutes later, Nathalie heard the car door's whump, then the keening of the engine as her mother sped off down McCandlish, refusing to shift until she was good and ready. |
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| But in terms of data we whump the daylights out of them. |
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| The regular whump of rotating helicopter blades segued into the sound of an old car engine idling, before evolving into a burst of static resembling a poorly tuned radio. |
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| The glimpse of bright yellow fusilage and the whump of the rotorblades above the clouds or the waves has signalled life again for many a sailor and climber in peril. |
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