Thesaurus results for CLOMP

clomp

verb

Definition of clomp

as in to stomp

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Recent Examples of clomp During a quiet moment, Mangione spun in his seat at the sound of clomping heels when two young women entered and took their seats in a row reserved for spectators. — Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2025 Its buoyant drums clomping beneath equally rambunctious guitar riffs hit like a scientific fact. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025 These days, though, there’s no need to clomp around in heels. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 21 July 2025 Inspired by the artifice of playthings, Jacobs turned to 1960s paper dolls last February, and this season opened the door to the dollhouse once again with clownish, clomping platform heels that forced his models to walk with a Barbie-like gait. — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for clomp

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Verb

At one point Evans stomps in to a Fielder secondary interview to try to stop it.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
McColley pushed Parente out onto the street and stomped his boot in the victim’s face five times, crushing Parente’s head into the pavement before fleecing his pockets and fleeing, according to the criminal complaint.

— Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomp

Verb

Offensive line shuffled up Dykes said in earlier in the week that TCU looked at everything throughout the program during the 2-3 start and would make the necessary adjustments to try and turn things around.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
Uribe shuffled off the mound, and the crowd at American Family Field roared.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of shuffle

Verb

That number lumps new deadbot platforms in with much more widely used and established grief tech, like online memorials, counseling resources, and estate planning tools.

— Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026
Instead of releasing each film’s tally individually, the studio has been considering lumping the returns of all four movies together.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of lump

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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
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

Definition of galumph

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Proteins and blood cells Proteins and DNA can gather on plastic surfaces, and lysozyme, a common test protein, also began clumping into aggregates there.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Ordinary matter alone would struggle to clump together tightly enough to form stars.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of clump

Verb

Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado.

— Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026
Days or weeks passed, but then the dog barked, the mail carrier tramped onto the porch, the mailbox clattered.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of tramp

Verb

Resendiz finished strongly, sending Mazoudier stumbling backward in the final minute.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Munyon's Paw-Paw, an alcoholic beverage dating to the early 1900s, has been resurrected by two longtime spirits industry veterans who stumbled upon its unusual history during a family outing.

— Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of stumble

Verb

In fairness, Collins has been out and the offensive line is scuffed up, but neither of those things impacts whether the Texans can convincingly stop the Cowboys enough times to stay within striking distance.

— J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
White shoes were a school requirement, but mine were scuffed and gray.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of scuff

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