clomp

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for clomp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clomp
Verb
  • The name Chelydra serpentina evokes colossal reptiles stomping through ancient forests.
    Hannah Smith July 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026
  • If anything, the dichotomy between the pop star who prances around Versailles in a sheer nightie and the pop star who stomps onstage in knee-high combat boots feels completely authentic and intentional.
    Chelsey Sanchez, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • He’s been shuffled on and off the practice squad here over the years.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 July 2026
  • Burke piles fascinating shuffling sounds on top, invoking a quiet scuffle, maybe some cardboard boxes being knocked over in a storage space.
    Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 June 2026
  • 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.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
    Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The huge animals knocked bodies to the cobblestones, and stumbling runners caused several pileups during the two-and-a-half-minute run from the pen to the bull ring where bullfighters will kill the bulls later in the day.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
  • The huge animals knocked down bodies to the cobblestones, and stumbling runners caused several pileups during the 2½-minute run from the pen to the bullring where bullfighters would kill the bulls later in the day.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Verb
  • Kostyuk raised her hands and dropped to her knees after Paolini scuffed a shot on her second match point.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • Before Mbappe scored his penalty, Gustavo Velazquez, the Paraguayan defender, scuffed the penalty spot, another underhanded attempt to disturb the tournament favourites.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 5 July 2026

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“Clomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clomp. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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