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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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Most tourists don't come to Abu Dhabi to put on a thick coat and stomp around a snowy landscape but theme park fans are the exception.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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That certainly looked to be the case as the Indianapolis Colts stomped the Miami Dolphins 33-8 in the regular-season opener.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Gakpo is deeper, and Wirtz pushes forward as the central member of Liverpool’s forward line, while Ekitike shuffles across as the left of the trio.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Declining enrollment means the district may need to shuffle schools, students, or teachers to ensure each school is well attended, and the student-teacher ratios are well-balanced.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
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By contrast, Drebin Jr. is more like a clumsy, aging Saint Bernard: a big, shambling man who wears a dour frown but can turn touchy-feely when the talk turns to romance, owls, or turkey dinners.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
Verb
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While some neighborhoods were good to deliver to, others weren’t, and when people took the good addresses, the rest of us were lumped with the bad ones.—
Jack Hargreaves,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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On impact, the particles clump together, blocking the flow of liquids and ions.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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Studies have shown that both erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to more easily clump — creating clots that can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, damaging blood vessels or triggering a stroke.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 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 bathroom in the apartment, as in most floor-throughs, was off the bedroom in the rear of the flat, meaning guests had to tramp through the kitchen and bedroom in order to get to it.—
Nicholas Pileggi,
Curbed,
15 Aug. 2025
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Teams hike across waterways, tramp under overpasses and scour parks for signs of tents.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2025
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Inspired by true events, The Rip centers on a team of Miami police officers who stumble upon millions in cash during a raid of a stash house.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Rise of Long-Horizon Capital Where VCs stumbled, others seized control.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Clomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clomp. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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