Example sentences for: bumped

How can you use “bumped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • IBM's stock price bumped up a little bit on Friday, but stayed steady today, which suggests that Thursday's sell-off was not some massive overreaction.

  • [H]e could be bumped off as a traitor."

  • I want to tell you a story: One day in late 1998, I was hanging around the Westchester federal courthouse, waiting for another of John A. Gotti's interminable pre-trial hearings to begin, when I bumped into Gotti's friend, Angelo Ruggiero Jr.

  • (She was bumped as "Woman of the Year" by the successful impeachment.)

  • In the courtyard outside I bumped into several parishioners, all politely curious about where I was from and what I thought of China.


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