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    lump example sentences

    lump


    lumped


    lumping


    lumps


    1. It was like a lump in his throat, and for a moment it got stuck and Ackers choked


    2. They had to go all the way around the back of the next barn where there was a big lump that made the kedas chuff even with the rockasaur empty


    3. "Now should you have any windfall in the meantime you could of course pay a lump sum with no fear of punitive charges Sergeant Biggs


    4. ’ Still, he took it home but was very happy because the egg was a lump of gold


    5. The city and the dam was a fuzzy line on the horizon, the North Sentinels were a significant lump, as tall as the main dam-wall directly astern


    6. But just as my hands rubbed the back of my head, I felt a soft, sticky lump and I froze


    7. I should lump these lessons even if I have no interest in them


    8. stomach all the way up to his painted eyebrows and he felt a lump


    9. As I drive away it suddenly occurs to me that Bunty had a certain magnetism for men … Stuart obviously found her attractive in some way, he wouldn’t have bothered seducing a lump of lard


    10. The old man had a tear in his eye and a lump in his throat as he

    11. There was a large lump of cooking lard on a


    12. He forked up a lump of mash and shoved it into his mouth


    13. head he felt a lump, evidence of the blow that had


    14. lump on the back of your noggin,’ he snarled at


    15. answered Petr, rubbing the lump at the back of his


    16. Tom could not help but feel a lump in his throat whenever he


    17. He feels like 'The Monster', like the freak, brought to life in the middle of a storm, except the weather is fine and the birds are singing and the lump in his throat is made of flesh and blood


    18. There is a lump in his throat and his heart rate has jumped up a notch, but he hides it well


    19. The lump under the bonnet of the Transit takes four twists of the ignition key to fire


    20. A lump rises in Carol's throat

    21. An immediate lump swelled in the back of Emma's throat blocking her response, but she wasn't to worry


    22. "When I sat down and you were bare footed, I just knew God was tormenting me with something that wasn't real –” His voice broke and she could almost feel the lump in his throat


    23. I've gone through…” again the lump was more then she could move


    24. and a lump in their throat


    25. final breath of it all, holding back the lump in my throat


    26. An eyestream for an optic nerve, tactile streams for the touch senses, a lump of silicon for a living brain, a souped up avatar for a real human soul


    27. Defoe pulled the platter toward himself and speared a limp, green lump on the side of the roast beef


    28. "This is chocolate!" gasped Hansel as he broke a lump of plaster from the wall


    29. The two races were so often working together, and so physically similar (other than their size), that the rest of the Triad found it convenient to lump them together


    30. Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, for their heart became like a lump of ice

    31. Ah! it was colder than ice; it penetrated to his very heart, which was already almost a frozen lump; it seemed to him as if he were about to die--but a moment more and then he felt quite comfortable with her


    32. a scar above its left eye, and a stout lump of wood aimed


    33. I suspected a lump hidden somewhere under the coats


    34. a solid lump of metal


    35. It resembled more of a misshapen lump of tumorous flesh than a human head


    36. There was a lump in my


    37. They dodged most of the rocks, though one guardsman fell with a great lump on his


    38. from the lump of the size of a basket ball, which had formed in the


    39. have to try and remove the lump


    40. Nerissa was a lump of misery, but there was one good thing about this

    41. Zarko swallowed hard at the sudden lump in his throat


    42. ” He had a lump in his throat


    43. Zarko swallowed hard at the lump in his throat


    44. He was all choked up and he swallowed at the lump in his throat


    45. “Naturally that lump of a quartermaster would even post guards at his locked back door


    46. A lump formed in my throat


    47. Application of hydrated lime gives worse results than lump quicklime


    48. ” she said, pointed directly ahead of them to an odd-shaped lump on the horizon


    49. This time Kate led the way, aiming at the lump on the horizon


    50. The odd lump was indeed the other sections of the Elysian












































    1. Why not say, “there are a plurality of theories, we have lumped them under a single topic out of


    2. lumped into history with Charles Manson and Hitler


    3. The harbour had been trashed – the black swirling water lumped with untidy


    4. They left and Murray locked up behind them and returned to making the rack, when he’d finished he bolted the rack into the truck, he stopped for lunch and watched the midday news on ABC, Iraq, Iraq and then more Iraq, then some experts and politicians displayed their ego’s, pompously having their say, the two messages that he got were firstly that no-one seemed to have a clue what to do, and secondly quite astutely the ABC had lumped politicians and experts together, talk about the blind leading the blind, the next item was about a car crash on the highway not being interested he turned the television off and went back to work, he finished the small amount of welding and burning that still needed doing on the plate steel project, after grinding the welds smooth he left it to cool down while he loaded some of the stuff onto the rack in the truck, he then wandered over to the fridge got a beer and decided to have a play with the dart guns, he was spraying the darts all over the board when he suddenly realised they hadn’t tested the knockout drug that would coat the darts, what if it didn’t put the guards to sleep immediately or what if they woke before they had finished, if the drug wasn’t instantaneous, the guards, if they were fast enough, might even start spraying bullets around, he would have to inform Mr Hawk of his misgivings when he came back from his fishing trip


    5. the face of adversity, it was hurtful to be lumped in with the rest


    6. will generally be lumped together and counted as one inquiry


    7. are not destined to be lumped into a category based on age


    8. species are often lumped in with the Buttefly fishes but the Heniochus species are usually much


    9. The Coral Banded Shrimp is usually lumped in with the other cleaner shrimps but this behavior


    10. Obviously he lumped me in with those same toffs

    11. “And he lumped her in with Stephanie, being responsible for him losing everything that was important to him,” Beth picks it up


    12. But now, when Jews were lumped in with other second-rate foreigners trying to sneak into this country, when Jews were accused of committing terrorist acts within the United States itself, when Jews were arrested and detained by her own government, and, most of all, when her son was beaten at school for being a Jew, now the price was too steep for her


    13. and mud bricks all lumped together in a pattern of gay abandon that gave the place an


    14. Not only that, but it is likely that the house he is then lumped with won’t sell for enough to cover the debt, let alone make a profit


    15. “And as he got older, instead of mellowing, the neuroses intensified and he lumped them all together


    16. Like the Nazis, he consistently lumped Jews and communists together, and frequently threw all supporters of the boycott movement into the same general category


    17. [A mortgage pool is a group of mortgages with similar maturities and interest rates that were lumped together into a single package, or security, called a mortgage-backed security


    18. Douglas chewed one bit of food for three minutes, and then, pretending to wipe his mouth, lumped it in his napkin


    19. I lumped him with the rest


    20. When you consider all the up gaps lumped together, you find that 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-day nominal returns and market-adjusted returns were negative

    21. There was quite a bewildering succession of drives, dances, picnics and boating parties, all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of "jamborees"; Alec and Alonzo were so constantly on hand that Anne wondered if they ever did anything but dance attendance on that will-o'-the-wisp of a Phil


    22. Little as she liked the idea of being thus lumped with Blanche Remi, Lillian made it a point to be lovely


    1. I always thought that such approaches, lumping alien spaceship landings in with that, were too contrived


    2. to Rodney, lumping the abuse and jail and overall


    3. on lumping a few thorny situations onto his shoulders, or at least


    4. “What are you laughing about,” Sully said, lumping back down on the sofa


    5. Just lumping a number of firms together


    6. Add 1/2 cup flour in a bowl and mix 1 cup of water by adding slowly (prevents lumping)


    7. By lumping them together, it verifies that religion is a creation of man, and is not of the


    8. Trumbull had departed with a fine bow, Solomon, leaning forward, observed to his sister, "You may depend, Jane, my brother has left that girl a lumping sum


    9. ) Lumping alpha and beta together in a tie-in sale made sense for sellers who could add some long-run value by providing access to the equity premium (and camouflaging any underperformance), but not for buyers, who could access the equity premium much more cheaply through index funds


    10. I’m lumping all of these together in one category

    1. for two mugs, a scraping of milk was added so that it could float in lumps on the


    2. Can’t have the hostages knocking lumps out of each other


    3. across the turf, the lumps and bumps and mud filled holes,


    4. Not bothering to dismount, I pull up my sleeve … my forearm is a mass of red lumps, all burningly itching


    5. Then, while Lucy, working on auto-pilot, cleaned the kitchen up again, her mother moved the torso, the head, the hoodie and two black bin liners full of soiled cleaning materials to an as yet unfilled area in the new patio base and proceeded to bury Alan’s mortal remains under lumps of hardcore and a layer of gravel


    6. The main trunks were at least thirty feet thick, the lumps in the bark on the coils of it’s roots were big enough to sit on


    7. Then little Gerda shed burning tears; and they fell on his chest, they went to his heart, they thawed the lumps of ice, and consumed the splinters of the looking-glass; he looked at her, and she sang a hymn


    8. Down on the far end of Khume Lvataiya from Khiynian Well the foundation blocks give way to haphazard lumps of the original postpile basalt far beneath Visyaign Technological University


    9. His bulging forehead had lumps scattered across it like a collection of knobs on a pumpkin


    10. I was so hungry by this time though that I drank the hot bully even though it was like swallowing vomit complete with lumps

    11. At the sight of the flag great lumps rose in our throats


    12. But he didn't and we continued to bob our way across the yard in the summer breeze, two white faced, voiceless lumps of quivering humanity, suspended a hundred feet in the air on an old garden bench


    13. Reaching the barbed wire fence at the far side, they milled about, the ones nearest the fence getting caught on the barbs, tearing lumps of fleece from their coats


    14. to use the lumps of coal to count the hours


    15. Edgar moaned when their hushed voices had faded to nothingness, discovering that he was only able to shift about atop his perch: his legs were lifeless lumps, refusing to carry his body


    16. caressed thick lumps of matted hair; he could not have been


    17. and fat, and hair, and did sees? them together, and made lumps of it: this he put in the dragon's mouth, and so the dragon burst into


    18. cancer, and lumps had been found in both of their necks


    19. nine kilometers from the Daiichi plant, and have lumps in their thyroids—one-third—and


    20. already have lumps in their thyroids

    21. lumps in 1,000 of them


    22. children had lumps in their thyroids


    23. Around 60% of children in Fukushima now have lumps in their thyroids


    24. Camel dung, musk and lumps of rock


    25. 5 Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, and lumps


    26. “Mr Jingles,” replied the nurse as she saw him slowly move back down the ward, dragging the pail with his big lumps of meat


    27. Leave this a little while until the yeast bubbles, then smooth out all lumps and pour into a hole made in the middle of the flour


    28. These are as they are, lumps


    29. 5 Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine and a cruse of oil and filled a bag with parched corn and lumps of figs and with fine bread; so she folded all these things together and laid them on her


    30. Mark prepared two cups, one white with two lumps of sugar and a tiny white pill, and one black for himself

    31. Previously only known as chicken feed, it was now ground up and turned into lumps of a very hard, yellow loaf-shaped substance which could not be managed easily


    32. The look of some of the lumps suggested that Nem wouldn’t want to lose his footing here


    33. -Since the day I met you, the lumps abound in my head! - He said in a pitiful Persian tone, touching the lump with his two hands


    34. Richard reclines into the furry lumps


    35. You shake it out of your head, drop your dishes in the sink, and retrieve Wafer’s squirming lumps from the table


    36. Egypt is a narrow strip of ancient black dust that becomes fertile if it is wet; hard as stone if lumps are left to dry


    37. Scattered islands of twisted metal, fragments of walls and roofs, bits of cars, telephone and electricity poles and thousands of unidentifiable lumps, reared through a stinking mess of sand and mud - a swampy plain fringed by stagnant pools and sluggish turbid streams


    38. An acre of sweaty, smelly bodies push, pull, and press various shaped lumps of steel or mechanical contraptions whose designs even predate the domes


    39. Jersey was pressuring me to wrap the case up quickly or hand it off to the FBI and take our lumps


    40. consisted of red lumps of skin

    41. Its coat is coming out in lumps,


    42. Inside, they spread out sleeping bags, made depressions in the sand for hips, cut two thick lumps of bread and two equally enormous slices of cheese, then, sharing the water bottle, quenched both hunger and thirst


    43. His new morning ritual, after a hot shower, was to poke and prod various parts of his body to check for lumps, bumps, and discolouration, or just to see if they came off in his hand


    44. Instead, as lumps of ice displaced my guts, I gave a pathetically unconvincing performance of not caring


    45. Her fingernails had been ripped off; her face was a mass of purplish lumps


    46. ” She held her hand out and he dug through his pockets to pull out a small knotted bundle with hard lumps in it


    47. With a snarl he exerted his inhuman strength, and knots and lumps and ropes of thews rose along his massive arms


    48. Checking a big garbage container, she noted that although it was empty, there was garbage stuck to the bottom inside, gum and suckers and unidentifiable lumps


    49. Then he opens all three balloons spilling a few very compressed lumps of weed and many other smaller balloons of other drugs on to his lap


    50. Stef had never mastered the silicone gun tending to squeeze the silicone into lumps rather than an even line, hence the mess! Stef had put the silicone onto the window frame in his usual style and when he pushed the glass in silicone oozed out covering the glass









































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    Synonyms for "lump"

    ball chunk clod clump glob lump hunk gawk goon lout lubber lummox oaf stumblebum puffiness swelling collocate bum wad bit nugget heap pile lot mountain block endure stomach digest brook

    "lump" definitions

    a compact mass


    an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement


    an awkward stupid person


    a large piece of something without definite shape


    put together indiscriminately


    group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side