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Example sentences for "mumps"

Lexicographically close words:
mummifying; mumming; mummy; mumper; mumping; mumsey; mun; munch; munched; munching
  1. Shapiro's Mumps spread over the entire planet in the next few decades.

  2. She would not be lonely any more, even if Mumps should stay for a longer visit than was expected.

  3. She laughed to see the Little Cousin's astonished face, for the doctor had said that the children must not come in to see her as long as Mumps stayed.

  4. But don't come after me if the whole blamed sanatorium swells up with mumps and faints at the sight of a pickle.

  5. She looked around the circle suspiciously, and every one of us looked as guilty as if he had been caught with the mumps concealed around him somewhere.

  6. Nor even like when we've got the mumps or the measles.

  7. He catches cold so easily, and mumps and everything.

  8. The suppurating mumps is to be distinguished by the acuteness of the pain, and the sensitive, irritated, or inflammatory fever, which attends it.

  9. In women a swelling of the breasts often succeeds the decline of the mumps by another wonderful sympathy.

  10. Christmas had brought her love to Prue, and the mumps to the Evanses; and both events have supplied Peggy with plenty of work.

  11. Their very mumps are severe and simultaneous.

  12. She said I was to stay with you until she came back because at Mrs. Lee's they have scarlet fever upstairs and the mumps downstairs.

  13. I hope you haven't been neighborly enough to take mumps or scarlet fever!

  14. He had no notion that mumps was the cause of Drummond's absence, and he sat and waited patiently for him in his study till the bell rang for prayers.

  15. I hope none of your lot caught the mumps from Browning during the game.

  16. Especially when he got mumps and couldn't go in himself.

  17. Of course, while he was sick with the mumps, he didn't have to get up, and while he was getting over the mumps his mother let him sleep as long as he wanted to in the morning.

  18. If he could have, he might have guessed that it was the mumps that had made Farmer Brown's boy look so like Striped Chipmunk when he has his cheeks stuffed with nuts.

  19. I'd like to know what Mumps and Josiah Crabtree were up to," put in the elder Rover.

  20. She had scarcely done so when Mumps and Dan Baxter stepped from the cabin.

  21. But Mumps caught hold of her and dragged her back.

  22. That's what Mumps said," cried Sam, before he had stopped to think twice.

  23. He disappeared within the ruined factory, and Baxter and Mumps went after him.

  24. Then, as Dan Baxter and Mumps came towards him, he retreated in the direction of the Searchlight, giving the danger signal as he ran.

  25. And Mumps is coming to meet Josiah Crabtree," put in Sam.

  26. Mumps kept out of sight as much as possible, while Bill Goss attended to the steering of the boat.

  27. At first it was thought to arrest Mumps also, but he begged for his liberty, and promised, if let go to tell everything.

  28. The ride at an end, Baxter and Mumps almost carried her to the river.

  29. Dick, who remembered well how Mumps and Baxter had been attired, and the pretty dress and hat Dora was in the habit of wearing.

  30. Tell them I am Dora Stanhope of Cedarville, and that I -" She could get no further, for Mumps cut her short.

  31. At the same time Dan Baxter and Mumps pulled up the anchor; and in less than two minutes the Flyaway was standing out into the bay.

  32. Yes, you can trust me," replied Mumps with considerable nervousness.

  33. If there was one thing Mumps was afraid of it was a gun or a pistol.

  34. Down at the river shore nothing could be seen of the Falcon, and they concluded that Mumps had also taken himself off.

  35. His eyes shone excitedly from a face which was almost the exact shape of an Association football; for he had reached the stage of mumps when the patient begins to swell as though somebody were inflating him with a bicycle-pump.

  36. He had a vague feeling that the tip of his tongue felt a little sore, but his mind was too engrossed with the task of keeping a look-out for the preliminary symptoms of mumps to have leisure to bestow much attention on this phenomenon.

  37. I believe I've caught the mumps from young Hignett.

  38. When I came away Mumps and Billy Sabine wanted to give in.

  39. Mumps wanted some of that candy and he lingered around even after Pepper had given him several chocolates.

  40. They certainly did," added Andy, and then, getting behind the teacher, he doubled up his fist and shook it threateningly at Mumps and Billy.

  41. Mumps and Paxton each made two misses on the long distance target.

  42. The others, including Mumps and Billy Sabine, were too timid and said they would not go.

  43. On Monday afternoon Pepper learned through Mumps that Ritter, Coulter and Paxton had accepted the invitation to Lakelawn and expected to have a "large time," to use Ritter's own words.

  44. I'll wager Mumps is afraid to shoot with bullets," whispered Pepper to Andy Snow.

  45. Mumps had his gun over his shoulder and Sabine had his firearms across his elbow.

  46. It must be remembered that, though mumps is not regarded as an important or dangerous disease, it may assume dangerous characteristics.

  47. Tib Mumps will be out wi' the stirrup-dram in a gliffing.

  48. In mumps it is usually a little less than three weeks, the average being twenty days.

  49. Mumps is not very common in young children, and in them it is usually mild.

  50. She said hush up, that co'ting was like mumps and chickenpox and he was about to get a second spell.

  51. And say, I and Mumps made a discovery," he added.

  52. Mumps was, as my old readers know, a small cadet whose real name was John Fenwick.

  53. Late in the week Pepper heard through Mumps that Paxton and Ritter were going after the nest of hornets that had been discovered in the woods.

  54. It was the treacherous landlady, Meg Mumps or Margaret Carrick, who is there interred.

  55. And this so scared Mumps he never once opened his mouth about the affair.

  56. Josiah Crabtree, and caught Mumps by the arm.

  57. All right, jump aboard," cried the bully, and Mumps and White lost no time in doing as bidden.

  58. The teachers were going to keep the thing quiet, but it leaked out through Mumps and Nick Paxton.

  59. The others did not know how Mumps had acted, or Jack and Andy might have given the sneak a sound thrashing.

  60. He watched the sneak that day and the next, and managed at last to catch Mumps at the boathouse.

  61. Some of the boys caught Peleg Snuggers and made him ride a wooden horse, while others captured Mumps and made the sneak dive head-first into a barrel that contained several pounds of pulverized charcoal.

  62. Mumps yelled like a wild Indian, but Pepper did not let up until he felt that he had given the sneak all he deserved.

  63. Paxton doesn't have much to do with him, and Mumps merely toadies to him the same as he toadies to Dan Baxter and some of the rest.

  64. That mumps is sometimes a fatal disease amongst these races, there is no reason to doubt.

  65. MUMPS I had a feeling in my neck, And on the sides were two big bumps; I couldn't swallow anything At all because I had the mumps.

  66. How was it possible, for instance, to say to him, "Do Chobbles and Mumps never ask after their Pappy?

  67. Mumps maintained that she had held on to her corner loyally, unwaveringly; Chobbles that she could not have done so, because she herself had selected a passage in large type as the point Mumps was to remain faithful to.

  68. So vivid was the impression that the words were on his lips: "Mumps and Chobbles, don't you know me?

  69. Mumps and Chobbles might be legitimate or no, according to my attitude towards their mother about our separation.

  70. Mumps was ambitious, advocating a ship of huge length, made with two full sheets.

  71. But she touched the bell-handle, and its sound was followed by the prompt appearance of Mumps and Chobbles, now no longer known by those names, which had been to some extent their father's private property.

  72. I said, 'Hold the corner to Motor Car,' and Mumps didn't.

  73. And wafers being obtained from her writing-desk, a threat of violence from Mumps was withdrawn, and overlooked.

  74. Should he ever see Mumps and Chobbles again?

  75. Mumps ended an imperfect description with a practical demonstration of how the vessel might be strengthened in the middle if some of the length were sacrificed.

  76. As it turned out, Mumps shifted her corner while Chobbles was yet half-way, and when Chobbles completed, dismay ensued.

  77. Mumps and Chobbles, having obtained the paper, differed about the length of the first hull to be put in hand.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ague; anthrax; blues; cat; cholera; diphtheria; doldrums; dumps; dysentery; grippe; hepatitis; herpes; hookworm; hydrophobia; influenza; leprosy; lockjaw; madness; malaria; measles; meningitis; mumps; pneumonia; rabies; ringworm; shingles; smallpox; sulks; tetanus; thrush; tuberculosis; typhus; yaws