How to Use clomp in a Sentence
clomp
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Then my daughter clomped down the stairs, running her hands along the wall to steady herself.
—The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 12 May 2017
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Every once in a while, a skater would clomp across the frigid cement viewing room in glamorous shiny skates to greet Palomeque and Davis.
—Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
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That was a year after Lily Tomlin clomped around the stage in a plaid flannel shirt and lumberjack boots.
—NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
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That night, the men said, they were awakened when huge stones began clomping against the outside of their cabin.
—Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
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But in San Miguel, burros still clomp up narrow streets, and 1 in 5 homes lacks running water.
—Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
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The second movement came off like a real, foot-clomping country dance.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
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Ferris says several of the animals will clomp onto each other like spoons, with a female on the bottom of the stack and males on top of her.
—Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
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After clomping to the front of the runway and back, models veered into the stands, bounding up and down stairs, nearly colliding with one another in the process.
—New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
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Noah Huber knows there were no avocado trees or banana plants when dinosaurs clomped across Earth.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
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Heathers‘s first five episodes, which were provided to critics in advance of the show’s planned premiere on March 7, less toed a line of good taste than clomped past it in as attention-seeking a manner as possible.
—Daniel D'addario, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
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Ride quality is almost supple with the suspension in Comfort mode, although the big Michelins do clomp solidly over pavement seams.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 2 Nov. 2020
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The womenswear designers who showed collections at New York Fashion Week, which clomped into town at the end of last week, are proposing a lot of bold shoulders, padded into swishy power suits and pouffed into floral exoskeletons.
—Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
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The sportiest Dynamic mode quells that to some degree without overly degrading ride quality—unlike in some German competitors—although the 23-inch wheels do clomp over impacts.
—Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2022
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