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
Learn to fuel and hydrate to make sure you don’t bonk on a shorter run.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2022
I don’t want to have to wonder whether or not the protagonists of these videos lived to tell the tale; I just want to see some toddlers not bonk their heads on tables.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2018
“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
My jaw is so misshapen that I can feel it wriggle out of joint whenever I open wide enough for a sandwich or a yawn, until it bonks back into place.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
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
In addition to new traditional park features, creative wooden elements will complement the park design, including tree bonks, slides and a hitching post.
From Time Magazine Archive
Justin finishes his drink and bonks me lightly on my head with his fist.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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
As if that weren’t bad enough, Frazier immediately went home, tripped on a skateboard, fell down the stairs and bonked himself on the forehead stepping on a rake.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
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
Here’s the scene: he’s gasping on the beach, realizes that he’s lying on a fishing net—and, as he sits up, is nearly bonked on the head by a falling coconut.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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
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
Like Dorothy after bonking her head in that storm, reporters on Thursday found themselves in what seemed like an alternate universe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
It was Mike, bonking me with my new football.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
