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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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Thunder claps rumbled like explosions, shook homes and sent animals scattering for safe cover.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2026
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These were claps of relief and encouragement from a European audience bracing for a mauling like JD Vance’s onslaught last year.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Tech industry leaders are citing higher costs for memory and storage products amid a global supply crunch, reviving concerns that AI infrastructure spending may compress profits across the software and hardware ecosystem.—
Benzinga,
Freep.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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This labor crunch is expected to result in average monthly payroll employment growth of just 44,000 jobs between 2028 and 2036, a dramatic slowdown compared with recent years.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Clip-clop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clip-clop. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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