How to Use clod in a Sentence

clod

noun
  • Her husband's such a clod.
  • But that’s just one clod’s opinion.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The drift that had formed against the glass crumbled into a pile of fluffy clods.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Two, blasting mud clods is a good way to pass the time when the fish aren’t biting.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The result was a dry product not unlike clod.
    — J.c. Reid, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
  • My daughter right now is really into dirt clods and rocks, too.
    — Bryn Elise Sandberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2020
  • After loosening the soil, gently lift the clump out of the ground and remove any soil clods.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The ground was thin, with clods of turf washed away by recent rain, and the dark soil beneath had pushed its way to the surface once again.
    — Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
  • At first, the object that surfaced was inconspicuous, packed in a wet clod of earth.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
  • This place understands flat iron, that marbled chop from the shoulder clod, fanned out in six fat slices to show off its medium-rare core.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Jeering students ended up pelting Rockwell with eggs and dirt clods.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Machines are shut down and shovels return, covering conduits with clods of soil.
    — Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Or secondarily a clump of vegetation, which sounds more like a clod to me.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe she is confused by this flat new geography of polished wood and granite with no trace of lumps or clods, where nothing is spongy.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Maintain Dig in blood and bone meal along with compost once the soil dries out a little (to prevent clods); wait for weed sprouts to follow, then hoe them in.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Large bombs plummeted into the range, sending huge clouds of smoke into the sky, along with giant clods of earth and shock waves toward the spectators.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Her Protestant army is causing all kinds of issues, including throwing a dirt clod at Anjou.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 26 July 2024
  • This constable is a total clod, but the nursing home manager is extremely stupid for calling the police.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Insert the fork into the ground vertically, then wiggle the handle back and forth a bit to loosen clods of soil without lifting the soil and turning it over.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Canes lay in piles on their sides, ready for the volunteers to knock off dirt clods that otherwise would keep them from drying out, leaving them as a possible threat with the next flood.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • According to the authors, their results suggest that clods of earth can indeed catalyze these reactions without the presence of life.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • The machine momentarily pitched forward, straining to loosen it from the ground — and then the electric motor heaved the boulder and a clod of dirt into the air in a puff of dust.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • Big and small, loose and tightly packed, these clods hurtle relentlessly from all angles at the shoulders, necks and faces of the horses—and jockeys—trailing the leaders.
    — Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2018
  • The real standouts are the thick, bone-in pork chops, which have a beautiful pink smoke ring along the bone end, and the lean shoulder clod, an old Texas cut with long beefy strands beneath a thick, smoky bark.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 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
  • Earl, Jenna’s clod of a spouse, isn’t fully sketched in, either, but Nelson did write in a bit of a back story (more than the the movie revealed) to give the couple greater context.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Garland’s hipster fakery is so outrageous and ludicrous that only a clod would take its indecency seriously.
    — Armond White, National Review, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Beef clod, a dense and relatively lean cut from the shoulder, dominated early community barbecues.
    — J.c. Reid, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The third movement dripped with sardonic pathos, with its several disparate melodies on a collision course toward a series of timpani thuds that sounded as final as a clod of dirt falling into the grave.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2021

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