clop
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Both use hesitation dribbles to keep defenders honest, clop through the lane with Eurosteps, and have the ability to drain annoyingly effective step-back 3-pointers with ease.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2019
Minor keys and Middle Eastern harmonic modes are everywhere; the rhythms move at a steady clop.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
And yet beneath it all that creaking, clanking sound continues to clop and clatter.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
The evening was deathly silent, punctuated only by the steady clop, clop, clop of Howard’s gear moving and shifting around his substantial frame as he walked down the street.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2017
The only sounds were the steady clop of their horses' hooves, the rhythmic tingle of the bells in Drogo's hair, and the distant voices behind them.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Blakon clopped his front hooves on the pavement after every point Segura made.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
He even clopped coconut shells together to imitate the sound of a galloping horse as Graham Chapman did in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
As we stood near the Reflecting Pool, a mounted Park Police officer clopped by on a horse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
The occasional decorated horse clopped by, pulling British or Italians upon a painted cart.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
“At any given point, the pike was a symphony of spinning wheels, creaking cabs, clopping hooves, and droning livestock,” Mr. Crytzer writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
During Bomba Estéreo’s energizing set, a dozen or so kids, some atop their parents’ bouncing shoulders, grooved to the vibrantly clopping percussion on the hard-surface dance floor laid in front of the stage.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
“I can’t say that I’m sorry when I don’t feel so wrong anymore,” Olsen sings atop light, clopping percussion and a lap steel that winks like it’s in a Steve Miller song.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
Early last week, bystanders on Victoria Road may have been fortunate enough to see Taranteeno the Marvellous clopping by.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021
It was a horse, so skinny it seemed made of sticks and paper bags, clopping through the snow and slush of the street.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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