At the sound the whole line galloped off in ferocious pursuit, and when, after describing a beautiful parabola, the ball bumped along the ground, it was smothered at the second bounce beneath the gross weight of the company.
It bumped the bulwark beneath Burke, and the vibration caused him to look down.
I do most strongly resent being perpetually bumped and bruised by unwilling participation in a grinding congestion of loggerheads.
Real thing I seemed to notice about him when I bumpedinto him yesterday was that he didn't look very cheery.
The Berlin train bumped ponderously out of the station.
He bumped violently into the hammock, with the natural result that Harry swung sharply against Norah, and for a moment things were rather mixed.
I bumped into a rock sliding down the ridge, and it made me sick for a few minutes.
Once I bumped into an apple tree--" The toe of his snow-shoe caught in an ice-hummock and sent him face downward into the snow.
His arm ached, his feet began to stumble, he bumped into other couples.
We said good-by to the colonel, for our passes took us but to the valley, and he had stretched a point in sending us down the plateau the evening before, and I bumped back to Kilid Bahr.
In fact, in the same moment that the Water Witch gently bumped against the other boat, Stockham Calvert and Warner Hagan straightened up and bounded across upon the Deerfoot.
Not only was it dragging the lasso, but also its cowboy rider, who, with one foot caught in a stirrup, was being bumped along on his back over the uneven ground.
Hi bumpedhis way to the bottom at the expense of some bruises and a badly ruffled temper.
Either she has been struck over the head or she has fallen and bumpedher head against the sharp edge of a rock," answered Miss Briggs.
So I busted loose and set my paddles to goin’ mightily; presently my head bumped agin the drift!
Laboriously the jitney snorted through the sand andbumped over tree stumps.
Finally at eight o'clock, and after it seemed that I had spent years on the trip, we bumped up against the shore of Kabambaie, within a hundred feet of the fatal spot.
His eyes were on her face, and the carbumped over a stone.
He bumped into the cage and the parrot gave a loud squawk.
Lemme see," he thought as he bumped the cart down a curb.
Jerry's Charge Account 1 Charge It, Please Jerry tried to be quiet, but he bumpedinto the one chair in the kitchen on his way to the kitchen cupboard.
We had a bit of a shindy," he said desperately, trying to give it a tragic accent, "and I bumped my head.
Why, you're the cuss that smeared the Angel, swallowed the Canary, and bumped Tough McCarty, all at once.
Both exclaimed at the sight of the young man's swollen face, but he checked their sympathetic enquiries drily: "Bumped into something.
He must have passed them to the fellow who bumpedinto me near the wash-room," said Barres, enchanted at his luck.
And, strange to say, although they had been wildly happy in this little love chase, they felt that they had mistreated a very good fellow and were saying as much to each other when they almost bumped into him.
Something bumped violently against Ridgeway's side, and, with the instinct of a drowning man, he grasped for the object as it rushed away.
All right," came back the cry, almost drowned by the noise of the carriage as it bumped on the rocks at the bottom of the river, the swish of the water and the noise of the horse's hoofs.
Maybe he bumped into it with his canoe," replied Bob.
Bill caught him and Pud held on like grim death as the wagon bumped and rattled along the rough road.
He bumped Bill back with his shoulder and then caught Pud's coat just as it was disappearing.
It's smashed the buggy, and demoralized my favorite horse, and bumped Allyn, and given us all a scare.
On rainy days, they adjourned to the attic, where they bumped their heads against the low rafters of the gables, or ventured on long, perilous expeditions upon the beams of the unfloored extension over one of the wings.
As we bumped over the ground in our first sudden dash, and then birdlike rose quickly into the air, my sensations were not the hair-raising variety so often described by the thrilled amateur.
The offer was gladly accepted because we had no guide, and for two hours we bumped over the rough forest trail.
The wheels of the starting gear bumped over the thin-crusted snow and jolted through Timmie's wheat stubble, then the great bird began to rise.
The fourth time it seemed they must be nearing land-- Yes, as the submarine bumped the edge of an ice-floe, a point of land showed plainly to port.
The Laird of the West bumped one out of the home station which Miner tried to flag as it switched to the overhead track, and got a through ticket to Caseville.
Good, Honus bumped a daisy scorcher to Jones which the latter pickled (he must have gotten it and put Honus out if it went as a sacrifice).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bumped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
