Example sentences for: lump

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

  • To lump these small companies, many of which are family-owned businesses with fewer than 500 employees, in with the artificial moniker of "big business" (itself a populist tool of the left) is a disservice to the men and women whose efforts form the backbone of one-quarter of our economy.

  • The word has several meanings, including “a heap of stuff,” such as a heap of grapes, a heap of mortar, a heap of something, but it also means a lump of sugar.

  • Nothing like him in Bosch or Breugel, nothing so denatured as to resemblenot a semblance of a human facebut the substance of some form made and then unmade, or like a lump of human butter excavated from a bog.

  • An anonymous Connecticut delinquent who owes 90 grand is negotiating to settle his debt with a lump payment possibly as low as 22% of what he would have paid.

  • Along with the rest of the audience, I jumped when I was meant to jump, laughed when I was meant to laugh, and swallowed a lump in my throat when I was meant to feel moved.


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