clodhoppers
Example Sentences
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I just wasn’t ready to scuttle around at belt level in clodhoppers.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
The results look like horror film versions of Greek, Indian or African religious sculptures, or like the detached tobacco-fiend heads and disembodied clodhoppers in Philip Guston’s late paintings.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2010
He wears good clothes, bought with the East European royalties of One Day, but in haphazard combinations: round fur hat, shiny green Finnish car coat, smart imported trousers and enormous Soviet-made leather clodhoppers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Time was when farmers figured in literature only as comic oafs or sullen clodhoppers, but Now in November pipes a more stately pastoral.
From Time Magazine Archive
His bright, indignant eyes swept from my battered gray cap, down the frayed sweater and paint-stained pants to a pair of clodhoppers.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
