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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.
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Alana Semuels/waitsfield,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
Imbue rich archival stills with the sounds of life — babies gurgling, horses clomping, train whistles sounding.
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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.
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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
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Now city officials are being asked to stomp the gas pedal on an ordinance that could speed the demise of some of downtown’s stateliest buildings — ones that help define its character, such as the old train station on Church Street, the Kress building and the Angebilt Hotel.
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On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
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The company has since shuffled several leaders, including naming a new human resources chief and the company’s first chief digital officer.
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The assistant shuffled to one side and the scene reset.
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Daxon Rudolph’s offensive upside Carels, Reid, Šmits and Verhoeff are generally viewed as the top-four defensemen in the class, but some scouts lump Daxon Rudolph into the same tier.
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We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
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Another way in which people’s carbon footprints become especially galumphing is through air travel, notably in first class.
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There used to be campus dogs galumphing around the quad, fat on a diet of student pizza and potato chips.
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When the lawn is wet, clippings will clump up and mat down on the grass, leading to unhealthy conditions over time.
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Using holographic imaging technology, scientists will also investigate particle aggregation to determine how the lake’s physical dynamics cause particles to clump together and sink, affecting water clarity.
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The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands.
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Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
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There's been some stumbling plays, thwarted by tripping and dramatic falls.
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The conversation stumbles on for a few moments, but Crook can’t find the words.
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Messi steps up… and scuffs it wide.
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And just like that, from scuffed to spotless.
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“Clomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clomp. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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