How to Use clomp in a Sentence

clomp

verb

• Then my daughter clomped down the stairs, running her hands along the wall to steady herself.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 12 May 2017
• Every once in a while, a skater would clomp across the frigid cement viewing room in glamorous shiny skates to greet Palomeque and Davis.
  — Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• That was a year after Lily Tomlin clomped around the stage in a plaid flannel shirt and lumberjack boots.
  — NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
• That night, the men said, they were awakened when huge stones began clomping against the outside of their cabin.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• But in San Miguel, burros still clomp up narrow streets, and 1 in 5 homes lacks running water.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• The second movement came off like a real, foot-clomping country dance.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• Ferris says several of the animals will clomp onto each other like spoons, with a female on the bottom of the stack and males on top of her.
  — Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• After clomping to the front of the runway and back, models veered into the stands, bounding up and down stairs, nearly colliding with one another in the process.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
• Noah Huber knows there were no avocado trees or banana plants when dinosaurs clomped across Earth.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
• Heathers‘s first five episodes, which were provided to critics in advance of the show’s planned premiere on March 7, less toed a line of good taste than clomped past it in as attention-seeking a manner as possible.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• Ride quality is almost supple with the suspension in Comfort mode, although the big Michelins do clomp solidly over pavement seams.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 2 Nov. 2020
• The womenswear designers who showed collections at New York Fashion Week, which clomped into town at the end of last week, are proposing a lot of bold shoulders, padded into swishy power suits and pouffed into floral exoskeletons.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
• The sportiest Dynamic mode quells that to some degree without overly degrading ride quality—unlike in some German competitors—although the 23-inch wheels do clomp over impacts.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024