Sentence examples for a clout from inspiring English sources

Elbov gave the fool a clout on the ear.

"Talk like folk," Agnes tells him, and if he doesn't she gives him a clout.

That's another reason why the film delivers such a clout – it is quite brilliantly acted.

(It was a clout that they would still have in the United States 22 years later).

She gave him a clout on the head with her club, "A son's a son," she said, "but a wrack's a wrack".

Suffice it to say that the moment delivers the message that crossing realities is dangerous with a clout that nothing else in the production quite matches.

ratio" -- a clout-to-effort ratio.

The battalions loved it - seeing one of their officers taking a clouting".

The Tribune investigation is a follow-up on a major clout scandal the paper broke in May 2009.

Tavola is a small shop in Westbourne Grove, west London, that carries a big clout.

Recognition gives us a little clout, but no decisive power.