clop
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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
However, by the late 19th century there were so many of them that regulations were introduced making it illegal for cabs to clop about willy-nilly.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2012
“Never knew people could get clopped so hard the way they clop them on those soap operas,” Mr. Savo said.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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Blakon clopped his front hooves on the pavement after every point Segura made.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
He even clopped coconut shells together to imitate the sound of a galloping horse as Graham Chapman did in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
As we stood near the Reflecting Pool, a mounted Park Police officer clopped by on a horse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
Lying on my back on a warm slab, meditating by candlelight, I almost forgot where I was — until the door flew open and a man in spa slippers clopped in.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2013
All day long the horse-drawn trolley clopped and clanged past our house to stop at the Grote Markt, the central town square half a block away.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“At any given point, the pike was a symphony of spinning wheels, creaking cabs, clopping hooves, and droning livestock,” Mr. Crytzer writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
During Bomba Estéreo’s energizing set, a dozen or so kids, some atop their parents’ bouncing shoulders, grooved to the vibrantly clopping percussion on the hard-surface dance floor laid in front of the stage.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
“I can’t say that I’m sorry when I don’t feel so wrong anymore,” Olsen sings atop light, clopping percussion and a lap steel that winks like it’s in a Steve Miller song.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
Early last week, bystanders on Victoria Road may have been fortunate enough to see Taranteeno the Marvellous clopping by.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021
“I said put yer hands up,” Davy says, his horse whinnying and bluffing and clopping from foot to foot.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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