clods in English

noun
1
a lump of earth or clay.
The soil was so hard it took Moore three whacks with a pick just to break loose a clod of clay.
2
a stupid person (often used as a general term of abuse).
But this is an army of rookies, clods , and dimwits - and the women make short work of their glorious space armada.

Use "clods" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "clods" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "clods", or refer to the context using the word "clods" in the English Dictionary.

1. My boots were caked in big clods of wet earth.

2. Go for the clods, spot the rocks.

3. They are about as strong as dried clods of mud.

4. 5 My flesh is covered with maggots and clods of dirt;+

5. A heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth.

6. It should also produce less clods and thus minimise lifting damage.

7. 13 Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling.

8. Gods, how those clods had wailed when they had seen his proud lion-masked visage!

9. His plimsolls were now caked in heavy clods of wet earth and his jersey was already wet from his soaked mackintosh.

10. 23 Gods, how those clods had wailed when they had seen his proud lion-masked visage!

11. Mary shivered and turned away as the first clods of earth thudded on to the coffin.

12. I like looking at the clods of earth hitting their faces, covering their chests, hiding them, completing something.

13. When Jehovah tips them, they may pour down so much rain that the dust becomes mire and the clods cleave together.

14. The rest of the squadron watched and heard Woolley cursing, kicking clods down on Callaghan, shooting into the water.

15. Members of Congress are impervious to the pain because they continue to collect their own salaries, the selfish clods.

16. Legend says two witches, one at Brayton, one at Hambleton formed the Barff and Hough by throwing clods of earth at each other.

17. When seized by his attacks he had put a razor to his ear lobe, or swallowed clods of dirt, or turpentine and paints.

18. A lump of dirt ()A insult used by the Steven Universe character Peridot; An oaf, used in such contexts as: "Bummer of Love / Food of the Clods", 1997 episode of The Angry Beavers Gods and Clods, a concept in the 1998 "Chickenpox" episode of South Park"Children of a Lesser Clod", 2001 episode of The Simpsons Beef Clod or Chuck Clod

19. Bullheads can survive out of water for hours, and there are stories of Bullheads living for weeks in ‘cocoon like’ clods of nearly dried mud

20. Who can exactly number the clouds in wisdom, or the water jars of heaven —who can tip them over, when the dust pours out as into a molten mass, and the clods of earth themselves get stuck together?”

21. ‘The soil was so hard it took Moore three whacks with a pick just to break loose a Clod of clay.’ ‘And some foul-mouthed yobs have been hurling Clods of earth at passing craft - with one passenger reportedly struck on the head by a Clod.’

22. • Clod is British slang for a copper coin, a penny • (v.i) To collect into Clods, or into a thick mass • A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder • A mass of soil produced by digging, which usually clumps together easily with repeated wetting and drying