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Example sentences for "bumps"

Lexicographically close words:
bumper; bumpers; bumping; bumpkin; bumpkins; bumptious; bumpy; bums; bunch; bunched
  1. To fit over the two bumps of the forehead were circles of the nine gems, which are supposed to be charms against evil influences.

  2. Then we bumps up against a really truly plute, and gets a squint at his dinner check, and we feels like panhandlers workin' a side street.

  3. They forgets all about the original proposition, and tackles anything I leads them up to, from bumpin' the bumps to ridin' down in the tubs on the tickler.

  4. Chetty don't like havin' his bumps felt of that way, and comes back with a left swing followed by an upper cut.

  5. One bumps a great deal in the carriage, for the springs are not "of the best," and are hidden in rope bandages to keep them from falling apart.

  6. The bumps behind the ear channels were well marked.

  7. My back was aching, so was my knee (from constant clutch-slipping over the bumps and cobbles), and my eyes felt as if they were popping out of my head.

  8. On our right was Kemmel with its pill-boxes making irregular bumps against the sky-line.

  9. If he is walking at the time friction ceases, the ground is suddenly so slippery that he falls down and slides along on his back or stomach in the same direction he was walking, until he bumps into something big or starts to slip up a slope.

  10. Perpetual motion is an established fact instead of an absolute impossibility; everything that is not going against gravity will keep right on moving forever or until it bumps into something else.

  11. When an automobile bumps into anything, the people in the front seat are often thrown forward through the wind shield.

  12. And let us pretend that we have just arrived at the place where things weigh nothing: When you try to walk, you glide toward the ceiling of the cabin and do not stop before your head bumps against it.

  13. When an automobile bumps into anything, the people in the front seat are often thrown forward through the wind shield and are badly cut; their bodies keep on going in the direction in which the automobile was going.

  14. And each time it bumps you are thrown off the seat into the air.

  15. Then, too, it was so perfect in form, no bumps on this side or that.

  16. Despair had begun to grip her heart when there came a series of bumps behind her and there stood Sparky.

  17. The Cucuyo can, nevertheless, at will, increase or diminish the splendour of this light by means of membranes which it superposes, like screens, in front of the phosphorescent bumps which it has on its thorax.

  18. Bumps produced on Cattle by the larvae of the Bot-fly.

  19. How is it that small bumps arise on the part that is stung?

  20. He might have taken any time to think about it, for Mr Casby, well accustomed to get on anywhere by leaving everything to his bumps and his white hair, knew his strength to lie in silence.

  21. He had two bumps side by side, not over an inch above a point where two such blows would undoubtedly have paralyzed him for life, if not killed him instantly.

  22. As it was, there were just the two bumps and no wet or caked blood.

  23. Then they saw that he had wound two of their blankets around his body to keep the bumps from hurting him and had fastened the blankets with some of the spare straps from the harness of the Sawhorse.

  24. A few drops of rain beat on the window, and the shoemaker looked up, his glasses shining, the bumps on his forehead gleaming.

  25. He wore great spectacles, had a white patch of forehead, and two great bumps upon it.

  26. Padna concluded that the bumps had been encouraged by the professional necessity of constantly hanging his head over his knees.

  27. Billy Bumps began to blat and butt the partition in his pen.

  28. Billy Bumps climbed to his feet and shook his head threateningly, stamping his feet; but the strange dog was too exhausted to pay the goat any attention.

  29. Then they saw that he had wound two of their blankets around his body, to keep the bumps from hurting him, and had fastened the blankets with some of the spare straps from the harness of the Sawhorse.

  30. My bumps always tell me the state of the weather, and they feel just now as if a snowstorm was coming this way.

  31. There were bumps on his head, bumps on his body and bumps on his arms and legs and hands.

  32. Even his fingers had bumps on the ends of them.

  33. For dress he wore an old gray suit of fantastic design, which fitted him very badly because of the bumps it covered but could not conceal.

  34. It was at once opened by a rugged looking man who had "bumps all over him," as Trot afterward declared.

  35. Oh, Walter's all right, but all the rest are just like bumps on a log.

  36. You didn't think they were bumps on a log then, did you?

  37. There's one of the great big differences between you and the make-believe ladies one bumps into in this part of town.

  38. You'll not have to bump the bumps for being late tomorrow--if you treat me right.

  39. Spaniard, on whose pericranium the bumps of operative skill and mechanical construction have yet to be developed.

  40. His forehead sloped back towards the crown of his head, and bulged out in bumps over the eyes, like foreheads seen in the Lion-house at the Zoo.

  41. She fixed her eyes on his face, short and broad, with bumps of "observation" on the brows.

  42. Jones faced the sergeant with a horrible cancer marked in bumps on his left side.

  43. They then showed bumps and deficiencies of all kinds.

  44. The good old rule that it is cold in winter and warm in summer is a good enough rule to follow.

  45. One story if it is good saves a whole day for me.

  46. He bumps into the woman, knocks the children off the horse, bumps into the Italian and sends him sprawling.

  47. So the bumps keep on growing and in the end they will be just like regular horns.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.