How to Use clomp in a Sentence

clomp

verb
  • Customers clomp across the vast dining room in their ski boots, ready to go home.
    — Alana Semuels/waitsfield, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The second movement came off like a real, foot-clomping country dance.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • That was a year after Lily Tomlin clomped around the stage in a plaid flannel shirt and lumberjack boots.
    — NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
  • Imbue rich archival stills with the sounds of life — babies gurgling, horses clomping, train whistles sounding.
    — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • But in San Miguel, burros still clomp up narrow streets, and 1 in 5 homes lacks running water.
    — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Noah Huber knows there were no avocado trees or banana plants when dinosaurs clomped across Earth.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
  • With Barcelona booming these days, locals’ displeasure over hordes of visitors clomping around town has made lots of news.
    — John Oseid, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Instead of clomping around in heavy, uncomfortable knee-highs this autumn, why not take on the pumpkin patch in shoes that are just as stylish, but won’t weigh you down?
    — Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • These were the same cobblestones that Carrie Bradshaw once clomped across during her early morning walks back home from clubbing.
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • 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
  • Its buoyant drums clomping beneath equally rambunctious guitar riffs hit like a scientific fact.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Local teens were clomping through the garden in high heels and dress shoes, fluffing their hair and adjusting their ties while their mothers stood by with heavy cameras around their necks, looking tired.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • Trunks opened and closed around us, Little Leaguers hoisting their bags inside, the sound of cleats clomping across cement, little boys going home.
    — Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Long before magazine editors were clomping around in loafers and wearing thigh-skimming oxford shirts over dresses, Torah teachers were tinkering with the formula.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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