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
Few crypto tokens have benefited more than bonk, which was launched at the end of December on the Solana blockchain and had rocketed 5,000% by early January.
From Reuters ● Jan. 17, 2023
It was like watching Tom and Jerry cartoons where the mouse hides behind the door holding a giant hammer to bonk the cat on the head when he races blindly into the room.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Twenty years ago, I got a glimpse of how it feels to lack one of our vaunted five senses when I took a bonk on the head and lost my ability to smell.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
I bonk my head on the inside of my sleep cell as a soft voice speaks over the ship’s comm system, jolting me awake.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
“When an elite runner bonks, their performance decline in absolute terms is smaller than when the rec runner bonks.”
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2016
The shipping is a tad bonks, so you might want to go in with a few friends and share the pain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
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
When she sits up without thinking, she bonks her head.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
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
Lying on his left side, Holtby reached for the puck, the one that had already skipped off his pads, bonked the near post and slid down his shoulder, trickling across the goal line.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
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
The goslings smiled and squawked and flapped over to their parents, bonking into one another and tumbling across the ground.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
