How to Use clod in a Sentence

clod

noun
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  • Her husband's such a clod.
  • If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.
    — Lee Sung Jin, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • Two, blasting mud clods is a good way to pass the time when the fish aren’t biting.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The rest of Burks' team took turns with the federal agents, hauling full buckets up the stairs then pressing clods of dirt through steel-mesh screens.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Maintain Dig in blood and bone meal along with compost once the soil dries out a little (to prevent clods); wait for weed sprouts to follow, then hoe them in.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • This place understands flat iron, that marbled chop from the shoulder clod, fanned out in six fat slices to show off its medium-rare core.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2017
  • My daughter right now is really into dirt clods and rocks, too.
    — Bryn Elise Sandberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Earl, Jenna’s clod of a spouse, isn’t fully sketched in, either, but Nelson did write in a bit of a back story (more than the the movie revealed) to give the couple greater context.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The real standouts are the thick, bone-in pork chops, which have a beautiful pink smoke ring along the bone end, and the lean shoulder clod, an old Texas cut with long beefy strands beneath a thick, smoky bark.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Large bombs plummeted into the range, sending huge clouds of smoke into the sky, along with giant clods of earth and shock waves toward the spectators.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Or secondarily a clump of vegetation, which sounds more like a clod to me.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Ask for shoulder clod, prime rib, sausage ... but not a fork—Smitty's upholds meat-market tradition.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Jeering students ended up pelting Rockwell with eggs and dirt clods.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Big and small, loose and tightly packed, these clods hurtle relentlessly from all angles at the shoulders, necks and faces of the horses—and jockeys—trailing the leaders.
    — Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2018
  • By early afternoon, nothing remained on the blank, featureless edge of the cemetery but a fresh pile of crumbling dirt clods, a small bouquet, and four holes where the metal tent poles had gone into the ground.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The idea of Ram’s birthplace is also introduced into the plot, where Ram is carrying around a clod of earth from his janmabhumi (birthplace)—even when wandering in the forest for 14 years.
    — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Caveat: Jockey Mike Smith must break Justify straight and fast from the starting gate, or risk getting shuffled back to an unfamiliar position in the middle of a roiling scrum, with dirt clods landing in his face for the first time in his life.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 3 May 2018
  • The third movement dripped with sardonic pathos, with its several disparate melodies on a collision course toward a series of timpani thuds that sounded as final as a clod of dirt falling into the grave.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Dave Barry used to say that the difference between men and women is that women can see actual molecules of dirt, whereas men can’t see it even when it’s coalesced into clods.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 10 Apr. 2017
  • That elusive will-o'-the-wisp season, lauded by poets in countless lyrics and appreciated by the dullest clod, will be ushered in officially at 12:45 o’clock this afternoon.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • This strongly supported the hypothesis (proposed nearly fifteen years ago) that ball lightning is basically a dirt clod dislodged and heated to incandescence by a cloud-to-ground lightning strike.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2022

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