Example Sentences
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As long as humans have been hunting and gathering, playing and fighting, we’ve been bonking our heads.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2024
It darted around the bottom of a white bucket, bonking its nose against the side and delicately fluttering the translucent fins that swept back toward its tail.
From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023
The team's trainers told Visger they were looking into rigging some kind of customized helmet, which would protect his brain shunt and allow him to continue bonking heads at the line of scrimmage.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2022
In addition to Myles Garrett’s indefinite suspension for bonking Steelers QB Mason Rudolph on the head with his own helmet, the NFL docked the Browns DE $45,623.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2019
Roy’s mother made him stay home all weekend to make sure there was no delayed reaction to the golf-ball bonking.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
