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  • verb Present participle of clonk.

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Examples

  • Waking one morning in the remote mountain enclave of Wesen, I come face-to-face outside my room with several large dairy cows, their neck bells clonking noisily as they chomp on the rich summer grass.

    Alpine Cycling Without (Much) Pain William Launder 2011

  • If we reset your timeline by clonking a nuclear bomb with a pebble, what would you do differently?

    SLACKERJACK – Music Is Your Weapon 2010

  • I looked toward the stairs to see my mother stalking over to me, her high heels clonking against the checkered linoleum.

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • I looked toward the stairs to see my mother stalking over to me, her high heels clonking against the checkered linoleum.

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • I looked toward the stairs to see my mother stalking over to me, her high heels clonking against the checkered linoleum.

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • For the eardrum setting: me clonking through the hall

    Dear Anjali Melissa Glenn Haber 2010

  • I looked toward the stairs to see my mother stalking over to me, her high heels clonking against the checkered linoleum.

    Nice and Mean Jessica Leader 2010

  • For the eardrum setting: me clonking through the hall

    Dear Anjali Melissa Glenn Haber 2010

  • What the Democrats should do is absolutely no different than a parent sending a bratty child to his room for clonking his little sister on the noggin.

    Top Lieberman Ally: He Needs To Face "Consequences" 2009

  • The day he accidentally rolled himself over from his back to his stomach, clonking his chin on the floor, crying out with surprise at the new position as much as at the pain, it was all I could do to restrain myself from rushing out of my room into the French House to tell everybody.

    The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

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