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Example sentences for "lumps"

Lexicographically close words:
lumpe; lumped; lumpers; lumping; lumpish; lumpy; lunacy; lunae; lunam; lunar
  1. She tied lumps of sugar with red ribbon and hung apples on, too, for Bessie.

  2. Broil the rib-bones, or skewer your iron ramrod through a dozen small lumps of meat and roast them.

  3. The lumps must be melted over a gentle fire; the pot should then be put in a heap of hot sand, to give the impurities time to settle, before it cools into a mass.

  4. The use of the stitching is to prevent the stuffing from being displaced, and forming lumps in different parts of the bag.

  5. It seemed just the spot to sit and sigh as I bent over the ferns growing from between the lumps of stone; for you never could go, even on the hottest days without finding some flower or another with a tear in its eye.

  6. A boned turkey is frequently served up cold, covered with lumps of currant jelly; slices of which are laid round the dish.

  7. Then fill your potting cans with lumps of the veal and tongue, pressed down hard, and so placed, that when cut, the mixture will look variegated or marbled.

  8. Have ready two quarts of green peas that have been boiled in another pot with a sprig of mint, and two or three lumps of loaf sugar, (which will greatly improve the taste.

  9. Peas may be greatly improved by boiling with them two or three lumps of loaf-sugar, and a sprig of mint to be taken out before they are dished.

  10. Garnish the kid with lumps of currant jelly laid round the edge of the dish.

  11. Garnish them with lumps or pats of minced paisley mixed with butter, pepper and salt.

  12. Serve them up with parsley sauce, and garnish the dish with lumps of minced parsley.

  13. Parts of broken ladders lay mingled with the slain, together with the round lumps of stone which had been their undoing.

  14. In those days the most strangled rendering of that tune would bring lumps into the throats of those that heard.

  15. But Gettysburg and the ridges to the west of Gettysburg were already occupied by two brigades of cavalry, and those, with a cockiness begotten of big lumps of armed friends approaching from the rear, determined to go on occupying.

  16. Other dusky urchins figure away with lumps of chalk on the floor, or on flat pieces of wood to serve as copy-books.

  17. D'ye see the little lumps on the shoulder o' each horse?

  18. So I suppose 'ludgets' are knobs or lumps of bread.

  19. The people throw out more rags, and the cinders are in big lumps and only half burned.

  20. And visions of unburnt coal in large lumps and real feather pillows and other luxuries for his suffering wife passed through his mind.

  21. It should be free from lumps before you put in the last of the milk.

  22. Now have a good egg beater in your hand; dust into this one-half pint of sifted flour; beat vigorously and rub out all the lumps of flour.

  23. And, laughing a little, we promised that we would, and that we would also give the colt sugar lumps as well as her weekly salt.

  24. At one place we found many exfoliating lumps of mica; we cleaved out sheets of it nearly a foot square, which Addison believed might prove valuable for stove doors.

  25. She would so much have liked to have her little lumps of sugar again.

  26. It is collected, without being mixed with turtle-oil, into little lumps eight or nine inches long, and from two to three high, rounded at the edges.

  27. That's all, except that we've been going since five this morning on nothing but a cake of chocolate that Polly found in her coat pocket and a few lumps of sugar.

  28. All we've had to-day is a cake of chocolate and some lumps of sugar," said Scott, briefly.

  29. To avoid the strain resulting from quick combustion, the powder employed is composed of lumps far larger than those of the pebble-powder above referred to.

  30. When the soup is ready put in two lumps of sugar, a glass of port wine, and pour all into the tureen.

  31. Into this is put the fish known as the sterlet of the Volga, or the sassina of the Gulf of Finland, together with bay leaves, pepper, and lumps of ice.

  32. In a French family, eggs and lumps of sugar are counted.

  33. With a run she had shoved her wheelbarrow forward and emptied the contents with extraordinary dexterity; the big lumps of coal rolled down the hill.

  34. Now is the right time to fetch the Apothecary to make ready plaisters, and bring Fennel-water to raise the milk, that the lumps may be driven away; and most especially that the cloves in the tipples may be cured.

  35. Did marvel at the Punt-Man flinging Lumps of Earth and Meal into the Water to entice the Fish, which methought would either have driven them away or surfeited them, but did not, and the Trick did much divert MR.

  36. The insects, sometimes found inclosed in lumps of Amber, sufficiently prove this.

  37. They place lumps of the ore on an iron grate, which stands immediately over the furnace.

  38. That part of the furnace which contains the lumps of ore, serves for the body of the retort; the row of aludels for its neck; and the little chambers in which these canals terminate are actual receivers.

  39. In the upper part of the stable building, seen in the foreground, the clay-lumps are shown exposed.

  40. Ordinary hammers proved entirely ineffective, and it was not until heavy sledges were used that the lumps could be smashed.

  41. The sun-dried clay-lumps so much used for walling in Suffolk would seem to be admirable for forming the partitions in a house of cob.

  42. Actual building work naturally goes quickly, as the lumps are large.

  43. But clay lumps he carefully reserves for inside walls and weight-carrying linings to the outside walls, bonding the two together very much in the same way as two 4-1/2 in.

  44. Then I saw down the hill, the flashes of guns, and soon I could hear great lumps of pot-leg screaming through the air.

  45. They took us down a dark passage, in which huge lumps of raw meat hanging from the walls struck one's hand with a chill, flabby caress as one passed.

  46. This inn was second-class, and along one wall was a deep trough, in which were four huge lumps of a white substance which puzzled us.

  47. But now there was no such fair token upon it, but a heavy and surly and treacherous look, with lumps here and there; as a man who intends to abuse us thrusts his tongue to get sharp in his cheek.

  48. I cannot liberate my words, but the lumps must be all come down by this time, without adding to the weight of our poor brains.


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