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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His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomp

Verb

To be sure, the question asking voters to name their top concerns lists several economy- and cost-related topics separately, subdividing an issue that might otherwise rank higher if lumped into a single category.

— Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
State records say two other now-inactive companies the indictment lumps in with those seven, Online Insurance Auctions and Insurance Auctions, LLC, were run (on paper) by Georgios Alexopoulos out of Fort Lauderdale.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 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

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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

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There was upset after upset, and a few teams were on the verge of stumbling as well.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Next week will bring major risks for a stock market that's trying to find its footing as the AI trade continues to stumble, with several megacap earnings, a Federal Reserve meeting and a key inflation report in store.

— Sarah Min, CNBC, 23 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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