[
UK
/klˈʌmpɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫəmpɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫəmpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface
How To Use clumping In A Sentence
- Eventually they came clumping down the stairs - for their fancy dress they had all dressed up as school girls.
- Immune cells within the brain go into overdrive, churning out substances that attract more immune cells, and white blood cells from the body flood in and join the fray, all clumping together to form destructive entities known as multinucleated giant cells. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- On the words ‘No sense was stung’ the minim triads again banish the clumping quavers, though this time the triads are no simple concords, but a dominant seventh of E major followed by an F triad that is simultaneously major and minor.
- The aim is to keep them chewy (though not inedibly so) and avoid the dreaded clumping. Times, Sunday Times
- It's so trendy there with all these trendy people and then there was me just clumping around but it was brilliant fun.
- So for those who still dream, it'll have to be back to clumping around a garage with your cousin's motorbike helmet on backwards.
- I was distracted from my thoughts by the clumping of male feet on the stairs, accompanied by snorts and that peculiarly Scottish sort of giggling usually depicted in print-but by no means adequately-as "Heuch, heuch, heuch! A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- Enter," he said wryly as the clumping and stomping of ironshod feet halted just outside the tent flap. War of the Twins
- These are great, clumping, virtuous blocks of stiff leather with bulbous reinforced toecaps, designed never to wear out.
- This ice was heavier than before and clumping more that the first batch.