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"Hump" in a Sentence (21 examples)
A camel can store a large amount of water in the hump on its back.
This job gives me the hump.
Every camel has its hump.
I have a hump.
A camel can store a large amount of fat in the hump on its back.
The camel sees not its own hump but that of its fellow.
The hunchback doesn't see his own hump but his companion's.
Wednesday is hump day, but has anyone asked the camel if he’s happy about it?
It is not difficult to distinguish camels from dromedaries, for while the dromedary has only one hump, the camel has two.
Humpback whales live in all the world’s oceans. They take their common name from a distinctive hump on the whale’s back.
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Fat, melted down from the hump of the camel, is suggested in an Oriental manual as an aphrodisiac aid.
She's got the hump with me.
Go away! You're giving me the right hump.
That guy is such a hump!
The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.
For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
Stop humping the table, you sicko.
Lessons are keeping me humping now, and will probably do so all summer.
In the first phase of the new yard's operation, from March 6 last, it was wisely decided to restrict the yard's use to allow for any "teething" ailments with complex electronic gadgets, so when I visited Margam early in May it was working well below its capacity, humping about 1,000 wagons a day; […].
"Why, sir," said one patterer, "I've gone out with a mate to work a litany, and he's humped it in no time." To 'hump,' in street parlance, is equivalent to 'botch,' in more genteel colloquialism.
The C-47s could not make it over the Hump with a full load and full tanks.
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