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Recent Examples of clip-clop
Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The tiny Greek island, only 90 minutes by ferry from Athens, has been renowned for generations as a dreamy, car-free outpost where the only traffic sound is the clip-clop of donkey hooves and the most stressful decision is which white wine to choose with dinner.
—Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 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
But the dream remains intact: to clip-clop my way through the wilderness, ride through pebbled creeks, into forests, up the mountains, and across meadows filled with a spread of wildflowers that would make Klimt gasp, stopping only to set up camp, refuel, and swap stories by campfires.
—Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 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
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
The tiny Greek island, only 90 minutes by ferry from Athens, has been renowned for generations as a dreamy, car-free outpost where the only traffic sound is the clip-clop of donkey hooves and the most stressful decision is which white wine to choose with dinner.
—Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 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
But the dream remains intact: to clip-clop my way through the wilderness, ride through pebbled creeks, into forests, up the mountains, and across meadows filled with a spread of wildflowers that would make Klimt gasp, stopping only to set up camp, refuel, and swap stories by campfires.
—Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clip-clop
Noun
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The film also shifts periodically to another non-human perspective – that of the gigantic observatories themselves as the donkeys clop, clop, clop their way around them.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
11 Dec. 2025
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The clop of the horse's hooves is a kind of muted drumroll.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
19 July 2025
Noun
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Clad in all black, James and the band cracked wise onstage with a brash, swashbuckling attitude, led constant clap-alongs, and took multiple sojourns into the crowd — and that was just during the first song.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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His assessment of the project is correct in the sense that while the tracks all carry his signature take on the stomp-clap beat structure, the melodic content is vast and varied.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Chopped nuts would add nice crunch.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, walnuts lend a slight crunch throughout.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Clip-clop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clip-clop. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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