clop

Example Sentences

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When I was young—five, maybe six—I was sure I'd levitated between the sofa and love seat of my childhood home, crashing to the ground when the clop of my father's footsteps severed my concentration.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2022

Both use hesitation dribbles to keep defenders honest, clop through the lane with Eurosteps, and have the ability to drain annoyingly effective step-back 3-pointers with ease.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2019

And yet beneath it all that creaking, clanking sound continues to clop and clatter.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2018

We watch as the men trick out their saddles with flashing CDs and plastic flowers, and as riders clop along the city streets, their leisurely pace at odds with the traffic around them.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2017

We gripped each other but didn’t dare make a sound, and for an unbearably tense moment we heard only the bleating of sheep and the clop of staggering hooves.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs