There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house.
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Clomp
//klɒmp//
Synonyms for "clomp" (3 found)
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Translations
3 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- тежки стъпки noun (The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.)
Galician
1 entries- troupelear verb (To walk heavily or clumsily)
German
1 entries- stampfen verb (To walk heavily or clumsily)
Sample sentences
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"Hello?" he called toward the closed door. "Anybody here?" Somebody must have heard him, because he heard something move on the opposite side of the door. First a distant sound like animals grunting, then a clomp, clomp, clomp like boots approaching.
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Amidst the clomps of oncoming horses, he could now hear men's low, conferring voices.
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[…] so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went; […]
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