Example sentences for: lump

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

  • 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.

  • By creating the broad category, "$75,000 or more," the University of Chicago figures lump Bill Gates with lowlifes like Chatterbox and Linda Tripp.

  • A WP front-pager reports that damages awarded to 500,000 Floridian smokers in a class-action suit could not be paid in a lump sum, saving the tobacco industry from a multibillion dollar verdict that might have forced some of the small companies to fold.

  • Third, it is not as easy as it seems to lump Fish with the progressives and utopianists who dominate the cultural and intellectual left.

  • Air Force dropped medical supplies to a South Pole researcher who found a lump in her breast.


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