How to Use clobber in a Sentence

clobber

verb
  • We clobbered them in our last game.
  • If you say anything I'll clobber you.
  • Businesses are being clobbered by the bad economy.
  • He got clobbered again tonight a bunch.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • He got clobbered again tonight a bunch.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • They are teed up to clobber the next person, too.
    — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Humans would join forces and clobber it just to avenge our species.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The best team in hockey was clobbered.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
  • Or fifteen must-do training tips to clobber your first marathon.
    — Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2022
  • How can a team playing like this get clobbered over the head in the playoffs?
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To pay for it all, very rich people and businesses would be clobbered.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Those people say they’re being clobbered by the strict limits on rentals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Blackpink’s songs both sneak up on you and clobber you with a sleek platinum sledge-hammer.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • How new presidents tend to get clobbered in midterm elections.
    — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • Redfish will pummel them, stripers will clobber them, and even deep dwellers like lake trout can’t resist them.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Within two minutes, it got clobbered by a 3-pound smallie.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • The West is set to get clobbered once again, with coastal rain and mountain snow through Wednesday.
    — Janice Dean, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The only way to eat gefilte fish is to clobber it with horseradish, like a lot of horseradish.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The group has been clobbered in recent weeks on AI disruption fears.
    — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Tar Heels were clobbered by attrition, as any mock draft will attest.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • He got clobbered in his first start of the season, yielding eight runs in 2 2/3 innings.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Then Muncy clobbered a three-run blast, hitting his second home run of the night and fourth of the three-game series.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The comeback became a clobbering by the time the third quarter ended.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Or that Denver just clobbered Houston by 36 points a month ago.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The Dodgers clobbered him, and Stengel pulled him in the second inning.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • When the lineup was hot in August, the Mets clobbered fastballs.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There are folks in Oakland who feel the Warriors are getting clobbered by karmic payback.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Global stocks are clobbering their American cousins this year.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There are good years, and then there are years where things like drought and plague clobber everything folks like Gober and Graves do.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Alvarez clobbered an opposite-field two-run homer to give the Astros a 2-0 lead.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2019

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