conk
Example Sentences
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It could be the cells in the body reach a critical number of mutations and then conk out.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
Everybody had a new car and a conk.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
The Frames battery has never really made it through the day — they conk out after three hours of constant music streaming at 60 percent volume.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020
They’d be fairly likely to conk out from boredom before the 5-year-old pilots in.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2018
I hold fast to the sides of Shorty’s cousin’s kitchen table, crazily contemplating whether the fire of a conk could lead a man to splinter wood with his fingernails.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
