Sentence examples for A clobber from inspiring English sources

She once had lesbians and gay men in a therapy group perform the story of Sodom and Gomorrah — "a clobber passage within evangelical circles" she told me — to suggest to them that it wasn't necessarily a story about men trying to have sex with one another (as many on the religious right claim) but, more likely, a ghastly rape scenario.

(A chap in a clobber.... I would be SO good at British).

Isolating a clobber passage from its context, and then claiming a sort of moral helplessness because "it's in the Bible," is failing to take the Bible either literally or seriously.

The most influential player on the line is Smith, who can make any block he is asked to make: a scoop off a lineman into a linebacker, a cut block, a hands-out pass block, a block in space downfield leading a screen pass, or just a clobber-you-where-you-stand power block.

I feared a clobbering, but she just laughed.

Tourism is Nevis's main source of income now, yet that too has taken a clobbering.

Like many knockout specialists, Wilder doesn't look like a clobberer.

To judge by recent polls, the Conservatives are cruising to a clobbering.

But then the morning comes with a story about a clobbered gay man.

WHEN the merger between Germany's Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank collapsed in ignominy last month, their ambitions in investment banking took a clobbering.

See articleAnxiety about the banks' exposure to the subprime market and the knock-on effects on the economy fed volatility in stockmarkets around the world, which had only slightly recovered from a clobbering two weeks ago.