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Recent Examples of clip-clop
Noun
Stagecoaches still clip-clop through town, cowboys still walk the streets and bartenders still pour whiskey in the saloons where the Earps and Clantons drank.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
21 Nov. 2025 There’s something special about salty ocean breezes paired with the clip-clop of horse hooves.—AFAR Media,
17 Dec. 2024 The camera’s pretty static, the characters’ are pretty goofy-looking to the contemporary eye, the story unfolds at the clip-clop pace of carriage horses who do not actually want to go through the pass into Transylvania.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
17 Sep. 2024 In fact, on early summer mornings, you’ll be awakened by the clip-clop of prized thoroughbred hooves making their way out to their morning workouts.—
Laura Ratliff,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 June 2024 Even in the center of Gaza City, hundreds of carts add a 19th-century clip-clop to the chaotic traffic.—
Steve Hendrix,
Washington Post,
6 Oct. 2023 Alpine Carriage Company and Pegasus Horse-Drawn Carriages take sightseers through town with the clip-clop soundtrack of horses hooves.—
Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
15 Sep. 2023
Lots to unpack in the two-minute clop from Heidi Engerman’s appearance as Yancy Gray’s (Jack Schumacher) wife, Syd, to Quinn’s (Minka Kelly) new beau Oliver (Ben Robson) and her mother’s (Patricia Clarkson) unexpected arrival in town.
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Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
Grenadiers and Scots guards marched in two lines, following the rhythmic clop of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
The Golf Channel would always be playing in the background; the soft claps were the soundtrack to our slow Saturdays.
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Ivy Odom,
Southern Living,
1 Aug. 2026
The origin of the thunderclap (sometimes called the Viking clap) is disputed, with several clubs in Europe claiming to have started the trend, but Iceland popularised it and brought it to the world stage.
Its forecast for revenue growth in the current quarter fell short of expectations, which executives pinned on a supply crunch in components getting vacuumed up in the AI boom.
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Stan Choe,
Fortune,
1 Aug. 2026
Add in the textural blend of crunch from the nuts and chewy from the pineapple, and this has quickly become my go-to midday desk snack.