In fiction or casual writing, "kwap" is sometimes used as a sound effect (onomatoeia) similar to "thwack," "wap," or "clap." It represents a sharp, flat impact sound.
He found it in the collapsed nave of the Sunken Church. A machine. No—a thing . It looked like a giant ribcage made of black iron, its bones pulsing with a slow, wet kwap-kwap-kwap . In its center sat an old woman, her skin the color of river silt. In fiction or casual writing, "kwap" is sometimes
The rain over the Sinking Quarter didn’t fall so much as kwap against the tin roofs—a wet, heavy sound like a fist hitting a table. That was the first thing the newcomers noticed: the kwap . It wasn't a drizzle or a shower. It was a percussive assault, a drumbeat that never stopped, even when the sky was blue. No—a thing