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Example sentences for "humpy"

Lexicographically close words:
humpbacks; humped; humping; humpless; humps; hums; humus; hun; hunc; hunch
  1. Passing Chillingham and thence to Wooler, the Till winds with extraordinary contortions through broad level meadows, the great humpy masses of the Northern Cheviots, reaching here the height of 2700 feet, towering majestically above it.

  2. There's a sort of dell down here in front of us, where the ground seems all hilly and humpy and hummocky.

  3. The place was a bit humpy and hillocky, naturally, and full of holes; but that was rather an advantage.

  4. Harry was greatly affected by this sad occurrence; for Humpy Bob had many good points of character, and a strong attachment had grown up between them.

  5. Humpy Bob, however, who was always running risks, made light of the suggestion.

  6. Humpy Bob was an eccentric character, well known on a dozen goldfields, whose shrewdness as a gold finder was countervailed by his incredible folly in spending his riches.

  7. Humpy Bob was lying unconscious, half-covered with a mass of fallen earth and rocks.

  8. As a youth he lived there in its "boom" days, and towards the close of his stay there he was mates with Humpy Bob.

  9. Tis mortal poor music ye are making' says the humpy ag'in.

  10. The only town I saw that differed much from the above consisted of a box-bark humpy with a clay chimney, and a woman standing at the door throwing out the wash-up water.

  11. Hungerford consists of two houses and a humpy in New South Wales, and five houses in Queensland.

  12. Also, a small loaf of sour bread sells for a shilling at the humpy aforementioned.

  13. Tell him there's a heavy thunderstorm coming and he'd better stay in our humpy till it's over.

  14. I thought it would have come down every step, and fallen like an old rotten humpy in a gust of wind.

  15. Humpy was tall and lean, with a thin, many-lined face.

  16. He smoothed the coverlet over the tiny form, while Mary and Humpy huddled in the doorway.

  17. When The Hopper and Humpy returned to the house, they abandoned the parlor for the greater coziness of the kitchen and there took account of the events of the momentous twenty-four hours.

  18. Mary discouraged the idea and Humpy took a like view.

  19. Humpy crumpled up in his chair at this new evidence of The Hopper's insanity.

  20. Mary wept; Humpy stared, his mouth open, his one eye rolling queerly.

  21. Mary and Humpy expressed their indignation and contempt in unequivocal terms, which they repeated after he told of the suspected "bull" whose presence on the local had so alarmed him.

  22. Humpy had chopped down a small fir that had adorned the front yard and had set it up as a Christmas tree--an attention that was not lost upon Billie.

  23. Mary wept; Humpy was awed into silence by his old friend's perversity.

  24. Shaver expressed alarm at the thought of leaving his chicks; whereupon Humpy conferred two of them upon him in the best imitation of baby talk that he could muster.

  25. Whereupon Humpy produced a Mexican silver dollar, a treasured pocket-piece preserved through many tribulations, and dropped it reverently into one of the stockings.

  26. Mary expostulated; Humpy offered advice as to the best manner of dealing with the refractory Shaver, who gave further expression to his resentment by throwing The Hopper's watch with violence against the wall.

  27. Even Humpy, now enjoying a peace that he had rarely known outside the walls of prison, even Humpy would be bitter.

  28. He knew it was not Humpy who dealt that blow.

  29. The last turn of the deep-rutted, sandy road where it left the river's bank and led straight between two humpy shoulders of rock to the foot of a platter-shaped valley brought him to a halt again in sheer astonishment.

  30. The heat of the sand at the entrance of the dome-shaped humpy revealed the site of the covered embers, and the rest was silence.

  31. He hitched John and Humpy to the spring wagon, and with a touch of his old enthusiasm, left his grandmother cheerfully--but for reasons of his own, did not tell her that he was going for Orlean.

  32. Near he saw John and Humpy whom she had been delighted to drive.

  33. I promised to go home and clean up Humpy and me.

  34. No one noticed her going, no one missed her from her place in the rank, but while belligerent Tobias was still arguing the question with stubborn Peace, Vinie returned with Humpy still at her heels.

  35. Commonly they are known as Feely, Toby, Tony, Gus, Vinie, Humpy and Deanie.

  36. Finn's hunting of the wallaby took him a good deal farther from the humpy than he had been before, since his first arrival there; and so it fell out that Bill left upon his day's round without having seen the Wolfhound that morning.

  37. He generally dozed and rested beside the humpy during the afternoon, preparatory to hunting in the dusk for the kill that represented his night meal.

  38. Buddy noticed some queer, humpy places across the brook in the swampy land.

  39. Why, he's quite smiling at us, and as soon as they begin to hang his load upon his beautiful humpy back he'll begin moaning and groaning and sighing as if there never was such an ill-used animal before.

  40. What, one of them wobbly, humpy things at the Zoo?

  41. Surely no mere man could have crossed the humpy threshold without a blissful, instinctive desire to keep on his hat and take off his boots.

  42. In springtime the roof and sides of this humpy were one huge blaze of Bougainvillæa, and not a vestige of bark was visible.

  43. So after a lot of talking it was settled, and Billjim departed for school, and the humpy knew her no more for four long years.

  44. The humpy was divided into three rooms, two bedrooms and a general room.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humpy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arched; bandy; concave; convex; gibbous; humpbacked; humped; hunched; vaulted