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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clomp
Verb
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Guests are invited to partake in the tradition of stomping grapes with their bare feet to get the juice out for creating wine.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
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The emphasis on winning to keep kids signed up and continue making money has stomped creativity out of American players, who are encouraged to play safely to ensure results instead of developing a players’ feel for the game.—
Andy Yamashita,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2026
Verb
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After starting at right tackle, Lomu flipped to the left side as Will Campbell’s top backup when the Patriots shuffled their O-line personnel with Maye still on the field.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
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The state's unique open primary — in which the top two contenders advance to the general election regardless of their party affiliation — was plagued by Democratic in-fighting and scandal that repeatedly shuffled the frontrunners.—
Kyler Alvord,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.—
Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
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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
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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
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Its porous nature gives it the ability to aerate the soil for better drainage, so the dirt doesn’t clump together and plant roots have room to expand and don’t stay wet for prolonged periods.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
6 June 2026
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The drug is designed to rapidly block platelets from clumping and restricting blood flow, lessening the adverse outcomes of a heart attack.—
Justin Zacks,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
Verb
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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
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Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Chip stocks, however, stumbled; bitcoin is hovering at its weakest since the war began, private credit is throwing off sparks again — and a flesh-eating parasite has turned up in Texas.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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The goal of the game is to land the stunt successfully without stumbling.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
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And just like that, from scuffed to spotless.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Martha Stewart,
5 June 2026
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Debutant Crysencio Summerville’s cross from the right begged to be converted, only for Malen to stumble and scuff wide.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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“Clomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clomp. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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