(1) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(2) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(3) Citizens of a militaristic empire are inexorably trained to adopt the mentality of their armies: just listen to Good Progressive Obama defenders swagger around like they're decorated, cigar-chomping combat veterans spouting phrases like "war is hell" and "collateral damage" to justify all of this.
(4) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.
(5) Acute clinical signs were hypersalivation, mouth chomping, diarrhea, muscle fasciculations, tremors, hyperexcitability, convulsions, coma and death.
(6) In the film he was a proper cigar-chomping, braces, growling, feet-on-the-desk kind of editor.
(7) Brunel might have chomped on several cigars before getting the point, and yet I think he would have loved it.
(8) Snus is unlike either snuff, which is sniffed, or chewing tobacco, which releases nicotine only when chomped on.
(9) Led by larger-than-life characters such as the cigar-chomping Cayne and amateur magician Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Bear has long cultivated an image as a maverick firm with a particularly risk-driven style.
(10) When Louis returns later in the programme, Caspar has chomped up Nancy's leg and been despatched to doggy Broadmoor in the sky.
(11) As we prepare lunch, I find myself chomping away at a celery stick.
(12) Budding author #rioferdinand may soon be spending more time on his novels as it emerges he could be on his way out of Queens Park Rangers six months after joining the west London club, news that will no doubt be greeted with glee by the literary world, where they are chomping at the bit to see what this new Franzen, this heir to Mantel, comes up with next.
(13) Surely there are women leaving both leadership programmes chomping at the bit and ready to lead in any and all sectors?
(14) His chomp on Branislav Ivanovic’s forearm while playing for Liverpool against Chelsea at Anfield in April 2013 earned him a 10-game suspension.
(15) The ONS said that in 2000 the UK chomped and burned its way through 188m tonnes of crops, fish and wood, compared with 172.5m in 2013, the last year for which figures are available.
(16) Are you really the caricature of the cigar-chomping, Foghorn Leghorn of Australian politics , where you’re saying that poor people don’t drive cars?” Shorten said in Perth.
(17) Polish firm Playsoft has beaten its rivals to the punch – or, indeed, the chomp – by developing a mobile game called Suarez Soccer Bite.
(18) But there is no such obvious defence for chomping down on an opponent’s shoulder.
(19) Yang Guang, the male of the pair currently engaging the gawping hordes, was sitting underneath his tree chomping on bamboo shoots.
(20) Why, there are loyal viewers clamouring right now for another episode in which detective sergeant Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh) stands over a corpse, chomping on a pulled pork baguette with apple sauce, boo-hooing about his divorce, while hunky Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica (Jamie Bamber playing detective Matt Devlin) questions all the suspects in scenes lasting no more than 46 seconds, in dialogue reminiscent of the kids' board game Guess Who?
Clomp
Definition:
(n.) See Clamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Uh, it's winter," she replied, then clomped off in the midday heat.
(2) You watch the so-called future of boxing as he clomps around to ranchera in Seahawk green shoes and Under Armour everything in Shane Mosley's gym, surrounded by posters of Shane's great fights, and you see bright-green heavy feet thudding around and try to convince yourself that you're watching Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De La Hoya rolled into one.
(3) I'm not sure I particularly buy the quick-fix methods of TV trainers like Cesar Millan or Victoria Stilwell, in the same way I don't believe Supernanny Jo Frost reverses 10 years of child behaviour by clomping about in a pencil skirt dispensing gold stars, but there's always something soothing about watching other dog owners.
(4) On it clomps, chainmail leggings round its ankles, firing catapults of flaming exposition at every surface as viewers scatter like screaming ants.
(5) The bothy is also close to the South West Coast Path, and the cliff walks, rarely interrupted by footsteps other than my own clomping (aided by a trusty walking stick), are predictably stunning.
(6) During the first half of the last century, people escaped industrial Britain to their own cabin or chalet, sheltering from the wind and sun and clomping about in a little wooden oasis for two weeks of the summer.