conk

Example Sentences

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Current models say the birds should conk out after three or four days, yet they fly for more than a week.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022

It could be the cells in the body reach a critical number of mutations and then conk out.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2022

But 2-year-olds are old enough to get bored and also have too much energy to conk out easily.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2019

Good grief — how are we supposed to figure out which products won’t conk out, spy on us or let in hackers?

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019

Try not to wonder what he’d think of me now, a high-school dropout with a conk on my head and a white girl in my heart.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz