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Examples of clod in a Sentence
Her husband's such a clod.
despite his imposing size, he's no simple clod
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The rest of Burks' team took turns with the federal agents, hauling full buckets up the stairs then pressing clods of dirt through steel-mesh screens.
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Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.
—Lee Sung Jin, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
By early afternoon, nothing remained on the blank, featureless edge of the cemetery but a fresh pile of crumbling dirt clods, a small bouquet, and four holes where the metal tent poles had gone into the ground.
—Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
When the ads fail to translate into an ongoing acting career, Henry gives up on life and goes back to work at Party Down with Ron, an overbearing clod in the vein of Gervais’ David Brent.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
Ask for shoulder clod, prime rib, sausage ... but not a fork—Smitty's upholds meat-market tradition.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
Or secondarily a clump of vegetation, which sounds more like a clod to me.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2022
Not the clump, but the clod who wrote it down as fact.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2022
That elusive will-o'-the-wisp season, lauded by poets in countless lyrics and appreciated by the dullest clod, will be ushered in officially at 12:45 o’clock this afternoon.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
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Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.
—Lee Sung Jin, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
By early afternoon, nothing remained on the blank, featureless edge of the cemetery but a fresh pile of crumbling dirt clods, a small bouquet, and four holes where the metal tent poles had gone into the ground.
—Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
When the ads fail to translate into an ongoing acting career, Henry gives up on life and goes back to work at Party Down with Ron, an overbearing clod in the vein of Gervais’ David Brent.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
Ask for shoulder clod, prime rib, sausage ... but not a fork—Smitty's upholds meat-market tradition.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
Or secondarily a clump of vegetation, which sounds more like a clod to me.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2022
Not the clump, but the clod who wrote it down as fact.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2022
That elusive will-o'-the-wisp season, lauded by poets in countless lyrics and appreciated by the dullest clod, will be ushered in officially at 12:45 o’clock this afternoon.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English clodde, from Old English clod- (in clodhamer fieldfare)
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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The first known use of clod was
in the 15th century
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“Clod.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clod. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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