Examples of “clop” in a Sentence

noun The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting the ground.

• You could hear the clop of hooves long before the carriage came into view.

verb To make that hoof-on-pavement sound while walking.

• The old mare clopped slowly down the cobbled lane.
• Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in. — Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy) (1959)