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Example sentences for: pumps

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Robert Carlyle is a wonderful (and frightening) actor, but the movie pumps him up to be such a terminator--"his only goal is chaos, and he grows stronger every day until he dies"--that when this little guy comes shambling on and turns out to be such a soulful twit, the movie loses all its credibility.
Stop in Ágios Geórgios to visit the Folklore Museum and look for the remnants of hundreds of small windmills that once powered water pumps.
Times ' Kevin "I Gave At First Sight a Good Review" Thomas, correctly foreseeing that the studio would be desperate for advertising blurbs on this one, pumps the thing up: It's "a great-looking picture that zips along with grace, light on its feet."
Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.
Like bR, pR consists of seven transmembrane α-helices that include in the membrane interior all of the residues conserved among archaeal rhodopsin proton pumps.