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Recent Examples of clompMen 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
Many in Hollywood were dubious as to whether Universal and Amblin could reboot the Jurassic franchise for a third time, and birth a new trilogy more than three decades after Steven Spielberg’s dinos first stomped onto the big screen in 1993’s Jurassic Park.
People expecting a state championship rematch between Benet and Marist in the Crimson Classic finals had those plans stomped upon Saturday when Lockport ended up surprising the Redwings 29-27, 18-25, 15-10 in the semifinals.
By contrast, Drebin Jr. is more like a clumsy, aging Saint Bernard: a big, shambling man who wears a dour frown but can turn touchy-feely when the talk turns to romance, owls, or turkey dinners.
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Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
Gone were the slow, shambling monsters that George A. Romero’s 1968 classic The Night of the Living Dead had established as the zombie status quo.
In the potentially new 2nd District, politically opposite Marin and Modoc counties would be lumped together for the first time since the Gilded Age.
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David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Suddenly, everyone is sniping in the middle of this gorgeous plaza in their polka-dot dresses, and nothing is going forward except for Guerdy and Kiki’s embarrassment that they’re once again lumped in with these relentless squawkers.
Studies have shown that both erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to more easily clump — creating clots that can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, damaging blood vessels or triggering a stroke.
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Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
Thioesters and early chemistry Earlier efforts to attach amino acids to RNA had relied on highly reactive compounds that quickly degraded in water and caused amino acids to clump together rather than bind to RNA.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
The bathroom in the apartment, as in most floor-throughs, was off the bedroom in the rear of the flat, meaning guests had to tramp through the kitchen and bedroom in order to get to it.
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Nicholas Pileggi,
Curbed,
15 Aug. 2025
Teams hike across waterways, tramp under overpasses and scour parks for signs of tents.
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Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2025
Closer Bryan Abreu stumbled but has earned the benefit of the doubt with the dominance he’s displayed.
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Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
Exposure to harmful content is another risk as studies show that teens are more likely than adults to stumble upon self-harm imagery or extremist propaganda.
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