Lump

//lʌmp//

"Lump" in a Sentence (30 examples)

One lump of sugar, please.

Please put a lump of sugar in my coffee.

I paid in a lump sum when I bought a television set.

The drama brought a lump to my throat.

You must go, like it or lump it.

Don't lump all these issues together. You need to give every single one careful consideration.

I bumped my head against the door and got a lump.

I have a lump in my breast.

He banged his head against a shelf and got a big lump.

He is a lump of selfishness.

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Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.

a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese

Lumps in the breasts are an indicator of breast cancer.

The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.

Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?

Don't just sit there like a lump.

"Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."

He's taken his lumps over the years.

Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision.

Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.

You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump.

“A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […]”

People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.

Most gays don't want to know about us, so lumping us in their support efforts is counter-productive at best.

Pellegrini’s decision to operate with both Edin Dzeko and Agüero in attack certainly looks misjudged bearing in mind that the first way to stop Barcelona is usually to try to crowd midfield and restrict space. Yet it would be wrong to lump all the blame on the manager’s tactics.

Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.

I never ceased to be amazed at his prowess at being able to lump two-hundredweight sacks of coal, which seemed as big as he was, up perhaps four flights of narrow stairs

The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.

If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.

Thin the paint with mineral spirits for a medium consistency so that it will not drip or lump.

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