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Example sentences for "clout"

Lexicographically close words:
cloudlets; cloudlike; clouds; cloudy; clouen; cloute; clouted; clouting; clouts; clove
  1. So I scuttled towards the door only to receive another heavy clout from the sentry's rifle.

  2. I relapsed on to my bed without a murmur only to receive a resounding clout which set my head throbbing once more with accentuated intensity.

  3. He promptly received a clout to knock some sense into him, the soldier meanwhile shaking the prison-like suit to emphasise what he meant.

  4. Afore I kenned where I was, he up wi' a dirty washing-clout and slashed me in the face wi't!

  5. Mony a clout I had to wash, and mony a nicht I sat lonely by mysell, plaistering my withered breist.

  6. A' would have clapped i' the clout and twelve score, and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half," i.

  7. Positive thought, however, carries no clout with respect to the alteration of another's ideas, which consequently, had already been set as solidly as if in cement.

  8. Must we borrow a clout from the Boer--to plaster anew with dirt?

  9. They were great, strong fellows, and almost all of them wore the old-fashioned indian breech-clout of red cotton under their drawers or trousers.

  10. Men frequently had nothing but the breech-clout and hat.

  11. The cub received a clout on the other side of his head.

  12. The next moment he received a clout alongside the head that knocked him over on his side.

  13. Insidiously, and by remote ways, as well as by the power of stick and stone and clout of hand, were the shackles of White Fang's bondage being riveted upon him.

  14. Certain it was, he had been enthusiastic over the prospect of the excitement that would follow a general uprising, for he put on a breech-clout and decorated his black face and legs in all the gorgeous hues of Indian war paint.

  15. He gave him a breech clout and leggings, which he put on.

  16. For Ich can bravely clout my shoone, And Ich full-well can ring a bell.

  17. For he can bravely clout his shoone, And he full well can ring a bell.

  18. Next the bride's mother gave presents to the bridegroom; she covered him with a mantle, which she fastened at the shoulder, and placed a maxtli or breech-clout at his feet.

  19. Indeede a' must shoote nearer, or heele ne're hit the clout Boy.

  20. Ich am my vather's eldest zonne, My mother eke doth love me well, For ich can bravely clout my shoone, And ich full well can ring a bell.

  21. By a fortunate chance, at this moment the Possum happened to put his snout within Bill's reach, and Bill hit it a swingeing clout to relieve his feelings.

  22. If you was a just man, you'd clout him on the snout, too.

  23. But by his side stood an old gnarled tree, who gave the little oak a clout on the head with one of his lowest boughs.

  24. But now you must behave yourselves, little beeches, or I will give you a clout on the head.

  25. The arrow had grazed his skin, and when Dave lifted his arm and looked at the oozing drops of blood he gave a startled oath, for he saw a flash of white under the loosened breech-clout below.

  26. Quickly he pushed the clout aside on his thigh that all might see, nodded gravely, and proudly tapped his breast.

  27. The Indians called him White Arrow, and he knew he was white from the girdle of untanned skin under his breech-clout and because the Indian boys taunted him.

  28. And then a lad in a boat gave me a clout on the head that knocked the daftness out of me, and in a week I was marching on my own deck, with my bonnet cocked like a king's captain.

  29. I had a thought that the clout he got on the stone floor had done much to clear his wits.

  30. He was hard upon my heels in spite of the thundering clout he had gotten on the jaw from the pistol.

  31. Yet, owing to the well-kenned equality of my temper, and also because he was not yet fully recovered of his wound, I did not clout him over the sconse with my cleek, as I certainly was in a great mind more than once to do.

  32. Nay, never mind for the clout I received, I am pretty used to her hand.

  33. Now, what would you say to a hundred youths who can each shoot, and hit the clout four times out of five?

  34. If Iredell had been on second, he also would have come home on Joe's circuit clout and the score would have been tied.

  35. But the mighty clout had sobered Miles somewhat, and the next two were out of Larry's reach and went as balls.

  36. There was no one out when the mighty clout was made, but Jim refused to be disconcerted.

  37. Their hair well cut, a raid was made on breech-clout and blanket.

  38. Do you call that piece of dish-clout a collar, I say?

  39. You've had many a clout from me, Fritzchen.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.