How to Use bonk in a Sentence

bonk

verb
  • The golf ball bonked the hood of the car.
  • He bonked him on the head.
  • Watch the baby birds bonking at the video at the top of the story.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Meryl bonking herself on the head with a lantern during a dance number?
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The researchers also found that faster male runners were even more likely to bonk.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • April tries to return a volley and then bonks herself in the nose with the pickleball.
    — EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In other words, she got bonked on the head and now is the Terminator.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Some might get bonked on the head by a gigantic balloon shaped like a hammer and fall behind.
    — Elise Favis, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Maybe that sleeper berth’s ladder actually did bonk me on the head.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2016
  • The woman, at one point, swings her leg back in attitude until her foot bonks her partner’s head.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Ideally, this would lead to a scrum of cars all jockeying for the same zone and bonking each other out of it.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 5 June 2018
  • The women all bent their elbows upward, like cactuses, to make sure nobody got bonked.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Perkins may attempt comedy, but his jokes land like a Nerf missile bonking your head.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2025
  • An argument ensues between two of the officials that ends when the not-quite-dead man gets bonked on the head with a mace.
    — David Plazas, The Tennessean, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Hibbs skied shirtless and helmet-less in a pair of tan overalls and worried at times about blowing out a knee or bonking his head.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 1 Mar. 2020
  • All the other couples will be extremely excited to hear that these two are bonking.
    — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2024
  • What is the etiquette for enjoying the last sips of your drink without that giant ice cube sliding down and bonking you on the nose?
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But new research this week suggests that men may be significantly more likely to bonk than women.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • Their fight is to be continued next week, and whether or not another member of the deck team gets bonked on the head remains to be determined.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That pickleball game on the driveway was pure pandemonium, and Joan almost got bonked in the face with a ball.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That’s because an athlete can bonk once muscle glycogen (carb stores) reaches a certain low level or becomes depleted.
    — Sara Angle, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
  • That depletes your carb stores prematurely, leaving you unable to accelerate and more likely to bonk.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Jacoby Brissett threw, the ball bonked off Dunlap’s outstretched forearms.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Scientists are actually still piecing together what leads a runner to bonk.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • Or picture playing a round of knockout basketball with Caitlin Clark when you’ve been known to bonk the majority of your free throws.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Their plots make little to no sense, they’re lit like a Soviet prison, and their characters speak to one another like they’ve been bonked on the head by falling pianos.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In a split second, Jaden decided to one-up Carolyn’s cruelty and bonked her in the head repeatedly with the fire poker.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • Stelton wrote that the short-term chance of an eruption is akin to the probability of getting bonked in the head by a baseball — while standing outside a major league stadium.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • What’s rather odd to today’s eyes isn’t just the subject of men standing in shallow boats on a glassy lagoon aiming their bows down into the water where birds swim, bonking them on the head with pellets to knock them out.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • Nikola Vlašić bonked one of the posts earlier in the half, and Modric's cross on a free kick into the box was headed over the bar by Marin Pongračić.
    — CBS News, 27 June 2026

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