Clod

//klɑd//

"Clod" in a Sentence (19 examples)

"I fear the rain," said the stone. "What would I say, me!" replied the clod of earth.

I thought she was a clod at first, but we're happy on our farm now.

There are earthworms in the clod.

clods of iron and brass

1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered clods of blood

The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.

As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool.

One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own.

"What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.

the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod

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The vulgar, a scarce animated clod

'What was its number?' 'I don't know, sir.' 'You clod! Why didn't you call one of our men, whoever was nearest, and leave him to shadow the American while you followed the cab?'

So here's a valentine for you, you insensitive clod!!

Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods.

Peridot: Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing!

"When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone."

when I came out and started to hoist it to the mule's back they rushed at me and jerked my suspenders down and then they clodded me with chunks of dirt

"So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch-head"

Clodded in lumps of clay.

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