We hear toward evening, high in air, the "conk" of the wild-geese. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
There is a great chance he'll conk out in the car. From Wordnik.com. [Another parenting question left up to the internet] Reference
He was looking straight down at the top of my conk. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
BANKS: ... like the conk and Malcolm X and all that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009] Reference
In her words she said, because I'm about to conk out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006] Reference
Why not just conk him over the head and take the box?. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Care]
(Except I know that as soon as I lay down I'll conk out.). From Wordnik.com. [phluid61 Diary Entry] Reference
I descend, find a nice little bed of leaves, and conk out. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, Whitetail Deer Capital of the World] Reference
I've got a snowball in the freezer I want to conk him with. From Wordnik.com. [The Moot Court/Op-Ed Café.] Reference
"Going to lay on that first conk?" the drugstore man asked me. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
He's sticking with XP because he knows it won't conk out on him. From Wordnik.com. [A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft] Reference
In regard to conk, "permanent" is probably overstating it a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Artist Conk] Reference
In the inner cities this is usually referred to as a comb and conk. From Wordnik.com. [Process] Reference
Librarians are not noted for being impressed by cars that conk out. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
"We Tennessee hillbillies don't conk out that easy," she later said. From Wordnik.com. [Danny Miller: Farewell to My Fantasy Mother, Patricia Neal] Reference
With electronic art you never know when the machinery might conk out. From Wordnik.com. [ART'S 'STAR SEARCH'] Reference
When dinner time they blow the big conk and everybody come for dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
And most don't get it until they conk out on the couch on Thanksgiving. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2007] Reference
"Bashed him one on the conk, he did," Goewin piped up from the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
What could she have thought of me in my zoot and conk and orange shoes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
Without those repairs the Hubble telescope will conk out before too long. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006] Reference
Officials say the gas had water in it, and that caused their cars to conk out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2008] Reference
"Yes, they were playing us, and they had lots of fun rattling on my poor conk.". From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
I like hand-cranked windows because they're less likely to conk out than power. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew DeBord: Where's the Nano Americano?] Reference
I vowed that I'd never again be without a conk, and I never was for many years. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
It was such a red-letter day that I even went and got my first barbershop conk. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
I couldn't concentrate and I felt like I was about to conk out at any given second. From Wordnik.com. [moschikat Diary Entry] Reference
The only hope was to keep in second and pray hard that the engine wouldn't conk out. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
My main injury was a knot on my conk from my attempt to dive through that coach door. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
My conk and whole costume were so wild that I might have been taken as a man from Mars. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
When you finally play me, I may skip — or perhaps I shall simply conk out in the middle!. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Windolf: A Talk with My Netflix Rental of Pan’s Labyrinth: Jim Windolf] Reference
A man with long dreadlocks riding a red kayak pulled up alongside me to peddle conk shells. From Wordnik.com. [St. Lucia Aims Higher] Reference
A foundling, Connor later discovers his immortality when a conk on the head fails to kill him. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Top Ten Imortals…] Reference
Then he would conk out for a while, sleep like a rock, and wake up ready to do it all over again. From Wordnik.com. [Now, what's the right way to fix a baby's hair?] Reference
A carefully kept nuclear-battery motor didn't conk; the vehicle could almost fly without guidance. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
“So a shoe can make a pretty good weapon to conk somebody over the head with,” Jake explained. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Care]
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