Example sentences for: rumpy-pumpy

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

  • The two meet in cyberspace; the rest is thumb twiddling until they "solve their problems, fall into each other's arms and get down to the old rumpy-pumpy" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Fun, say the critics, as long as you can believe that "lurking in the next AOL chat room might be a Tom Hanks or a Meg Ryan and not some drooling 300-pound loser with bad skin" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Read Edelstein's review, in which he says Ephron's movies "go down easy, like Muzak," .)

  • Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)

  • "almost unreleasable" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). And to add insult to injury, the Chicago Sun-Times ' Roger Ebert uses the expression "rumpy-pumpy" in his review for the third time in four months.

  • Side note: Ebert uses the bizarre sexual euphemism "rumpy-pumpy" for the sixth time in eight months in his negative review in the Chicago Sun-Times . (Click here to watch the trailer.)


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