How to Use clobber in a Sentence

clobber

verb
Definition of clobbernext
Synonyms for clobbernext
  • We clobbered them in our last game.
  • If you say anything I'll clobber you.
  • Businesses are being clobbered by the bad economy.
  • Go ahead, clobber him in the head and watch the blood gush.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • We got clobbered the last two days in the first inning.
    — Sam Blum | Sblum@al.com, al.com, 10 June 2019
  • Humans would join forces and clobber it just to avenge our species.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The Dodgers clobbered him, and Stengel pulled him in the second inning.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The West is set to get clobbered once again, with coastal rain and mountain snow through Wednesday.
    — Janice Dean, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Then Muncy clobbered a three-run blast, hitting his second home run of the night and fourth of the three-game series.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Gurriel clobbered the hung changeup 403 feet to left field.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
  • A hundred years later, no one swings for the fences anymore, for fear the fence will come back and clobber ‘em.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Shortstop Elly De La Cruz clobbered a 111.3 mph line drive that sailed over the right field fence.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 30 July 2023
  • The Mariners are also on a 8-game win streak and clobbered the Orioles last night to prove themselves as one of the league’s hottest teams at the moment.
    — oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Kazen, the clerk, ran after Dominguez and Salazar but was clobbered over the head in the parking lot with the foot-long bong, the injured man told sheriff’s deputies.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The storm that had clobbered the East Coast then raced across the Atlantic and slammed into England with the same powerful punch.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In the fourth inning, Roark left a 2-2 slider over the middle of the plate to Yelich, which was clobbered deep into the second deck in right field.
    — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2019
  • With two runners on base, Daniel Murphy clobbered a 97-mph fastball over the right-field seats for a three-run homer.
    — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 27 July 2019
  • Or fifteen must-do training tips to clobber your first marathon.
    — Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2022
  • To pay for it all, very rich people and businesses would be clobbered.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • In the sixth, a wild pitch by Blackburn sent in another run, and in the seventh, Chirinos clobbered a three-run homer.
    — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Blackpink’s songs both sneak up on you and clobber you with a sleek platinum sledge-hammer.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Colorado’s star third baseman clobbered a 404-foot solo home run in the fifth inning, one of the team’s few highlights on the day.
    — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Those people say they’re being clobbered by the strict limits on rentals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The comeback became a clobbering by the time the third quarter ended.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The Tar Heels were clobbered by attrition, as any mock draft will attest.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
  • Then, in a full-count, Kershaw threw a belt-high slider that the Arizona catcher clobbered 419 feet.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The same day Betts went without a homer in batting practice, Martinez at one point clobbered three in a row with ease.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The only way to eat gefilte fish is to clobber it with horseradish, like a lot of horseradish.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2021
  • There are good years, and then there are years where things like drought and plague clobber everything folks like Gober and Graves do.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2020
  • College football is clobbering housing markets across the United States, as wealthy fans and investors seek short-term rentals for games.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024

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