9 example sentences using bump.
Bump used in a sentence
Bump in a sentence as a noun
Might want to bump the contrast up a bit.
Even with a 10k bump in pay and full benefits, it was a wash.
As a second year, base and expected bonus each receive a $10k bump.
Maybe you can hire him and bump everyone else's salaries up to 110k but a 10% budget increase might not be feasible.
The signing bonus covers the initial bump, and then everyone has a window to see if things are copacetic.
Bump in a sentence as a verb
It sets a terrible precedent, and gives Comcast the leverage to bump the price extortionately at the end of the deal.
A black person that truly deserved to get into Harvard is indistinguishable from one that got there only after the bump from affirmative action.
So he doesn't bump into said ceiling when running such tests back to back?Did the author run the tests back to back, or have a cool down period between tests?Where was the author's network upstream located when he tried said tests?
The new iMacs' chipset and GPU are probably already more expensive than the previous generation's and Apple's almost always unwilling to bump the total cost of the machine or the cost of any BTO parts because they're guaranteed to get more backlash over those moves.
Bump definitions
a lump on the body caused by a blow
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"
See also: blow
knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
See also: knock
come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
See also: dislodge