Sentence examples for clomped around from inspiring English sources

Gauguin wore peasant sweaters, a raffish beret and clomped around in wooden clogs, even on visits to Paris.

Despite the lateness of the hour and the bleakness of the sky, a cluster of parka-swaddled Documenta-goers remained, and Miller attracted the occasional stare as he clomped around the woods in Fritz's company.

Mr. Taborn etched fast, glancing scribbles at the piano, punctuated by the occasional chordal chime; Mr. Black scraped and clomped around his drum kit, extracting sighing overtones from a cymbal with a violin bow.

The bowlers are virtual kin to Bruce Nauman, who, in his iconic 1968 video "Stamping in the Studio," clomped around an empty room for an hour — a ritual of isolation and futility.

Remember when your feet were so wet and sticky coming off the beach that you just crushed down the heel of your sneakers and clomped around with just the front of your foot stuck inside?

I clomped around happily for several minutes in a simpler lipstick-red peep-toe, chunky "belted" pair that hoisted me to drag-queen height, its ocean liner-like structure ("Is there storage in there?" my husband wondered later when I showed him a picture) magically reducing my legs to stems rather than stumps.

WHAT THEY'LL DO The store is huge and airy, with plenty of space to clomp-clomp-clomp around as you try on bottom-heavy boots.

Once we got an angry letter from the guy downstairs complaining about the French architect we had rented to clomping around early in the morning.

"I was doing international phoners this morning, and my mum kept clomping around in her big black shoes," Ms. Allen complained.

"Caroline has taught me so many things about the English way of living," says the marquesa, modestly dressed but clomping around in a pair of strappy plum velvet wedges.

It isn't (I suppose) that Nolan can't or won't conceive of that generations' mental and personal life, but that he's sufficiently awed by their achievements and wants to place viewers' little feet into our predecessors' giant shoes to let us clomp around in them and imagine the strength that went into even the slightest step under those circumstances.