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Recent Examples of clompDuring 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
Kylie Minogue had a massive moment in custom metallic Bared boots onstage for the AFL Grand Final, while Alix Earle opted for the brand’s Hillstar boots in black leather to stomp around the Coachella fairgrounds back in April.
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Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2026
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.
Add the dry ingredients and the ground nuts to the mixer bowl (with the mixer off) and beat on low speed just until combined, then increase the speed to medium and beat until the dough starts to clump together.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Oct. 2026
Micelles that form in the liquid dope prevent the messy, disordered proteins from clumping and getting tangled.
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.
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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.
The last chance for the Mountaineers ended when Hawkins stumbled and fell in the end zone for a safety in the final two minutes.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Nov. 2026
For seven games, Myles Garrett could only watch the Rams from a stadium suite, on television or from the sideline as the team favored to win the Super Bowl stumbled to a slow start.
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.
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J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2026
White shoes were a school requirement, but mine were scuffed and gray.