bonk
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Deputy Arthur Perry, who arrived at Stoneman Douglas during the shooting, testified Friday that when he tried to use his radio he only got a “bonk, bonk, bonk” noise.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
The Solana token has now indeed jumped as bonk has gained traction: it's up 131% in 2023, the biggest gainer among major cryptocurrencies.
From Reuters ● Jan. 17, 2023
It was like watching Tom and Jerry cartoons where the mouse hides behind the door holding a giant hammer to bonk the cat on the head when he races blindly into the room.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Learn to fuel and hydrate to make sure you don’t bonk on a shorter run.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2022
“You know, cheering, excitement, rah, rah, rah. The whole school gets together to watch the players bonk helmets and beat their chests.”
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Between broken bones — yes, plural — and bonks to the head, Spade’s corporate dork spends most of the mercifully short running time willing himself to be invisible.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
“When an elite runner bonks, their performance decline in absolute terms is smaller than when the rec runner bonks.”
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2016
The shipping is a tad bonks, so you might want to go in with a few friends and share the pain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
Equipped with log slides, stump jibs, trashcan bonks, gap jumps, rope ollies, barrel jibs, old logo banners and all of the big jeans and flannel you can handle.
From Time Magazine Archive
When she sits up without thinking, she bonks her head.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
The massive, stainless steel behemoth bonked into the sign around 11:45 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Would we even know one if it bonked us on the heads?
From Slate ● May 9, 2019
Independent Journal Review revisits the time last year when Marco Rubio bonked a kid in a head with a football.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2016
United was heading down a familiar and ruinous path Sunday, falling behind early in the second half when a ball bonked off a defender’s head and into the net.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2013
Just then something bonked her on the head.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
It darted around the bottom of a white bucket, bonking its nose against the side and delicately fluttering the translucent fins that swept back toward its tail.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
The team's trainers told Visger they were looking into rigging some kind of customized helmet, which would protect his brain shunt and allow him to continue bonking heads at the line of scrimmage.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022
Unlike other flying insects, they don’t instinctively avoid bonking into humans.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
In addition to Myles Garrett’s indefinite suspension for bonking Steelers QB Mason Rudolph on the head with his own helmet, the NFL docked the Browns DE $45,623.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2019
He kept hammering until Gilligan snatched away the coconut and cracked it open by bonking it against his own head.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
