Sentence examples for clout him from inspiring English sources

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When Bairstow does try to clout him down the ground, Pollard takes an outrageous running catch at long-on.

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In a drunken rage, she clouts him.

Inevitably he strays, and inevitably Trescothick clouts him through gully for four.

"You're hurting me!" "You let her go!" the girl on his right cried, clouting him on the ear.

She pulled the man's derby over his eyes, clouted him with her umbrella, and said, "Now you have a reason to hate Jews".

Then Giles clouts him through extra cover off the back foot for four, and smears him down to the ground to reach his fifty.

When the fifties Oliver taunts the closeted Philip — "You'll die... not knowing who you are.... What a foolish, sad way to live" — Philip clouts him, then collapses in his arms.

We see him as a child, played by Darcy Bryce, scrapping with his brother and clouting him with a brick — the sole occasion, in "Hacksaw Ridge," on which the hero harms another person.

When first-innings destroyer Broad came back, Warner clouted him back over his head for another six, only to snick one behind to Matt Prior three balls later to fall for 124 and give Broad his 50th Ashes wicket.

Ms. Shriver describes Edgar's success in having a Madrid bombing that kills a pregnant woman attributed to the fictional SOB as giving him "clout he could spend like money," and reminding him of his favorite children's book, "The Velveteen Rabbit," in which a stuffed bunny becomes a real bunny through the power of love.

In his eight seasons, James has not had a coach with more clout than him.

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