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
The Solana token has now indeed jumped as bonk has gained traction: it's up 131% in 2023, the biggest gainer among major cryptocurrencies.
From Reuters ● Jan. 17, 2023
You mean like a bonk on the head, right?
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2019
Maybe that sleeper berth’s ladder actually did bonk me on the head.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
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
Equipped with log slides, stump jibs, trashcan bonks, gap jumps, rope ollies, barrel jibs, old logo banners and all of the big jeans and flannel you can handle.
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
“Lots of fluorescent lighting. Blue carpets, toilets, sinks — it just bonked you over the head with blue.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
I threw my hands up in terror but failed to block the projectile, which bonked me, hard, on the head.
From Slate ● May 24, 2018
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
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
It was Mike, bonking me with my new football.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
