Example sentences for: pumping

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

  • There was the writers' conference with Mr. H. pumping all the way up from Bimini on water wings.

  • The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says the movie imitates the medium it critiques, "pumping up the humdrum into the histrionic."

  • His job consists of paying off tribal chiefs to prevent them from disrupting pumping operations.

  • Visitors flying into L.A. at night get a grand view of the network of traffic arteries, with cars and trucks surging along like blood corpuscles pumping through the veins of some living organism.

  • In any of the bronze foundries, you’ll find the same medieval scene, with a boy apprentice pumping the bellows to keep a charcoal fire blazing while the smiths hammer away.


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