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Recent Examples of clomp
Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.
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Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Customers clomp across the vast dining room in their ski boots, ready to go home.
—Alana Semuels/waitsfield, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Imbue rich archival stills with the sounds of life — babies gurgling, horses clomping, train whistles sounding.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
With Barcelona booming these days, locals’ displeasure over hordes of visitors clomping around town has made lots of news.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Customers clomp across the vast dining room in their ski boots, ready to go home.
—Alana Semuels/waitsfield, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Imbue rich archival stills with the sounds of life — babies gurgling, horses clomping, train whistles sounding.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
With Barcelona booming these days, locals’ displeasure over hordes of visitors clomping around town has made lots of news.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clomp
Verb
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When Empower Field hosted the CONCACAF Nations League final between the United States and Mexico in 2021, the building stomped and shook like a Saturday at College Station, Texas, or Madison, Wis.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
15 Oct. 2025
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Shortly after, another group of gunmen, without any face coverings, arrived at the site, stomped their feet, and stood in a grid formation.—
Yamiche Alcindor,
NBC news,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The doctor grunted, shuffled off.—
Sam Lipsyte,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Mazzulla could shuffle his starting five from game to game, too, based on matchups and other factors.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The shambling Cliff and the spiky Didi make for an odd couple.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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The Walking Dead keeps shambling along, now splintered into a bunch of pretty lackluster spinoffs.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Because often what happens is lumping together the perimenopausal experience doesn’t necessarily let someone tell their individualized story, which may different to other conditions.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
15 Oct. 2025
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But a tax on short-term vacation rentals should not be lumped in with the shameful trash fees and parking charges, which are regressive taxes that hit underprivileged people the hardest.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Add remaining 1/4 cup melted butter; stir until mixture is evenly moistened and begins to clump together.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
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Gerbera daisies have a clumping growth habit and may be divided at the roots, as long as separated clumps each have a least one crown, for propagation purposes.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
11 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Another way in which people’s carbon footprints become especially galumphing is through air travel, notably in first class.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
28 Dec. 2019
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There used to be campus dogs galumphing around the quad, fat on a diet of student pizza and potato chips.—
Beth Thames ,
al,
30 Oct. 2019
Verb
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The students tramp upstairs to a room of artifacts owned by a Black family in the 1860s.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
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Thousands upon thousands of people tramped through Paris in 2015, grieving the 11 journalists and one police officer killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo and promising to safeguard its mission.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Things do get more interesting when Mia stumbles upon an improbable house in the middle of the woods, occupied by a witchy old lady (Robin Bartlett).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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With upsets keeping divisional races entertaining, Week 6 offers a chance for several surprise teams to solidify their place among the contenders, and for stumbling powerhouses to stop their slides before things get out of hand.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Clomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clomp. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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