They heard the clumping of the two other men entering the airlock.

It was so quiet that we could hear the clumping of the man's feet on the wooden stairs inside the house.

Faintly, she heard voices and the clumping of heavy boots.

She heard it then, a monotonous clumping, one foot moving slowly, coming down hard.

It was the clumping of boots on the floor.

He was interrupted by the clumping of cowboy boots in the corridor.

A sudden clumping and heavy breathing shot him upright: "Who is it?"

This may arise from limited sampling, minor clumping of data, or other factors.

Their clumping allowed him to see which regions had the highest concentration of oxygen.

Certainly this close clumping happens in ice-water, when the cell should be weak.

And that clumping keeps salt from shaking out of saltshakers.

"The theory is that there'd be a clumping of mail," a postal inspector said.

A negative test shows no clumping of gelatin particles.

The clumping of quasars doesn't need to mean that everything is lumpy."

A clumping of the waves here means this is the most likely place to find that traveling electron emitted from over there.

In addition to slowing the overall expansion, gravity causes local clumping of matter into stars and galaxies.

But the clumping of the stars, stirred into one part of the sky, meant only one thing.

He was polished to a high gloss and there was none of Rodney's clumping.

An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it.

The later clumping of these clouds results in the formation of galaxies and their clusters.

However, depending on the problem, if clumping does not occur, the nondeterministic approach may not be very effective.

There is no clumping of the noodles, and the sauce is absorbed in every strand.

In assessments of verbal literacy, the clumping of boys toward the bottom is more pronounced.

Some theories suppose that this seeding, during which little actual clumping presumably occurred, must have taken a long time.

Because of this clumping, the number of pigment granules and their size are difficult to determine.

They can tell us why we should all go to the Clump.

Half of us want to go see what's in the Clump.

He said the others had been shot dead there, in three clumps.

There was a clump of them in the next house.

She looked about the little clumps of girls playing games.

A man had come out from a clump of trees.

A clump of 18 came up, like money in the bank waiting to be spent.

I saw clumps of officers at different points along the road.

Because our attention had already been drawn to a clump.

Past a clump of trees to his left the view opened.

Families later stood in small clumps, holding on to one another.

They have spread into large clumps and seem to be doing fine.

They went over to the clump of trees and sat down.

A few of the clumps are only one sentence long.

Then he looked around for a large clump of grass.

The red is from matter still falling into those clumps.

He made his way among the trees, also growing in clumps.

I want the tree to move east, back to the Clump.

We need to get you out of the Clump entirely.

Even their hair seemed to fly up in the same clumps.

So they can listen to people clump around making small talk?

He led me into the dark, toward the clump of cars I'd seen from the window.

Then, you can have the whole class run around in the room and show that clumps immediately form.

One of them flashed his strong light into the clump.

I saw great clumps of it lying on the floor at his feet.

They were clumped into four groups of about three men each.

He clumped back into the house and down the front hall.

He clumped the Indian club back hard on the floor.

People were still clumping up and down the deck outside.

Then he turned around and clumped back on down my stairs.

He turned without a sound and clumped back along the pier.

His boots clumped on the floor as he moved toward the door.

Someone clumped down the stairs at the other end of the building.

If a large pirate force moved in, they were clumped too close.

The form has moved from the initial stage of a body clumped on the floor.

But the turning point came as they clumped off the ice after the second period.

She had moved back into the night at the Children's approach, and shadows clumped around her.

I clumped on down the steps and went out in the rain to my car.

In other places, whole stacks of them are clumped together.

Or even of my people clumping about with their big, heavy boots.

They clumped across to where the fish still smoked above the fire.

She could hear them clumping down the stairwell above her.

The frame was hard to handle and it clumped quite a bit.

Moments later, she heard the sound of clumping feet, rushing toward them.

He left the room again, his boots clumping on the stairs.

He turned out the lights on the third floor and clumped downstairs.

We went to stir the noodles, and they just clumped.

They could hear Pilgrim clumping around on the deck above.

I clumped down the stairs again and flung open the door.

He clumped across the deck and in his turn was lowered over the side.