clunks 1 of 2

plural of clunk

clunks

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of clunk

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clunks
Noun
  • That's right, thanks to the one and only Taylor Swift for hopping on and deciding to talk with two complete idiots that don't know anything about the music industry.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This doesn't mean the Furons are idiots who got lucky, though.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Speedrunners have also found some arcane sequence skips to get around certain bosses or methods for putting off some boss fights until later than the developers intended.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This creamy cleanser skips harsh suds and instead uses a peptide blend with amino acids to strengthen fragile strands while preserving your natural oils.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The nurse smiles, but glances at the clock.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • On the other side of the aisle, Emmet chooses the same and the steward glances towards me.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During Sunday night’s match-up between the Baltimore Ravens and the Buffalo Bills, NBC revealed a new promo touting its coming coverage of the NBA, which bounces up in late October as part of a new 11-year rights deal struck between the basketball league and NBCUniversal.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His 3-year-old grandson, Aaron Jennings, climbs the opposite chair and bounces on its spongy base, giggling.
    Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still, as Mann says, members of Gen Z are no dummies.
    Julia Sullivan, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But the claim here isn’t that the Snakes are baseball dummies and the Padres are baseball geniuses.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Harrison stabs Prater with the needle and knocks the billionaire out.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • When cosmic rays — including, in part, plain old protons from the Sun’s solar wind — strike the Moon, the recoil from those heavy elements knocks them into an excited state.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But there are some optimistic signs—traffic dips and sales declines are slowing, per Restaurant Dive, and Starbucks’s China business is also improving.
    Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There have been other dips for the monarchy over the years, including during the era Princess Diana's messy divorce from Charles and after her death in a 1997 Paris car crash.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mechanism feels smooth and sturdy—no awkward jerks or wobbles.
    Zoë Sessums, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Life is too short to work with jerks.
    Shayne Fitz-Coy, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Clunks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clunks. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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