Bumper

//ˈbʌmpə//

"Bumper" in a Sentence (21 examples)

The car bumper absorbed some of the impact.

The traffic was very heavy. The cars were lined up bumper to bumper.

"Take a look at this." "Eh?" "There's an impact mark on the right-hand side of the bumper."

Tom's car is easily recognizable since there is a big dent in the front bumper.

We had a bumper crop this year.

Americans seem to have a unique tendency to express themselves by the bumper stickers on their cars.

Tom has a fish bumper sticker.

Sami's front bumper was fucked up.

Sami fixed his car bumper.

As she was pulling out of the parking space, she hit the bumper of the car in front of her.

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[T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.

Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]

Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,— / O smile among the shades, for this is fame!

Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady.

Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.

Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry; / Fill, O fill the pirate glass; / And, to make us more than merry, / Let the pirate bumper pass.

The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.

a bumper collection of silly jokes

What a bumper year for apples!

We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.

"I see I must bribe you to harbour me—come, pledge me in a bumper health to the last young lady that slept at Wolf's Crag, and liked her quarters.—My bones are not so tender as hers, and I am resolved to occupy her apartment tonight, that I may judge how hard the couch is that love can soften."

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