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Example sentences for: rump

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

This "lumbering and clumsy" alliance, incapable of "managing such brush fires as Kosovo," could "lose the Kosovo war in a month against the ruin of a rump state," warned columnist Charles Krauthammer.
Memo to Walker: Check out Page 12 of this week's Star . Where did you get that tip--from a rump reading?
Over time, the policy should try to weaken and eliminate the network's infrastructure in order to reduce it to a "rump group" like other formerly feared but now largely defunct terrorist organizations of the 1980s.
A clue for COCK might thus come to read: number one in the pecking order dominates hens and crows (a quizzical statement, unless the word crows is read as a verb) or even: creature with a cow's head and a bullock's rump found in a coop (first letter of cow plus last three letters of bullock ).
Ackerman focuses on the de facto transformation of government wrought by the Fourteenth Amendment, enacted by a rump Congress in violation of the express language of the Constitution.