Example sentences for: lumps

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

  • In fact, corn came to symbolize life for the Maya — in their myths of creation, mankind was formed from lumps of maize dough.

  • The paper's reporter on the spot, Richard Lloyd Parry, wrote that "warriors carrying spears, rifles and machetes displayed a severed ear and a human arm and offered me lumps of hearts and livers torn from the bodies of ethnic Madurese, who have become the target of a large-scale ethnic purge.

  • Hispanic , though currently the best answer, isn't entirely satisfactory because the term lumps together people who are about as alike as, say, Tahitians and Haitians.

  • For, the list of 48 industrialised countries lumps India almost at the bottom--among the ten unhappiest countries--only ahead of Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Belarus, Nigeria and Bulgaria."

  • As you reach the outer harbor, the urban scenery fades, and a jumble of indecipherable green lumps appear.


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