Lump in a sentence as a noun

Don't you dare lump me into a group of people you hear complaining loudly.

He demonstrates clearly what is wrong with many news outlets but then he lumps the Times in with them too.

With Facebook I see a huge lump of data but nothing really too groundbreaking.

How stupid it is to say "what men want", to lump half the race into one generalisation.

In my opinion, it does a disservice to Snowden to lump Manning together with him.

Please don't lump the entire US population with a few ignorant morons who have not seen the world five miles outside their home town.

I think it's unfair to lump the faster-than-light-neutrino experiment in as bad science.

Lump in a sentence as a verb

But it's intellectually dishonest to lump that question in with franchise laws and licenses for florists.

We don't lump Twitter, email, and blogging together as "text-sharing applications.

The shuttle was a bad design, with a high failure rate, and it doesn't make any sense to lump it in with tried-and-true rockets, which have a far lower failure rate.

The Bank can't just combine the debt of it's 1000 deadbeat debtors and sell it off to a debt collection agency for a lump sum. No, it needs to send 1000 mailing notifications and 1000 second-notifications and wait 30 days, etc...

The information about the disease came in pieces: first all I knew was that there was a lump; then came the ultrasound, the CT scan, then biopsy of the testicle, then a second surgery to sample lymph nodes to which the cancer might have spread.

Now this doesn't mean you have to become a mindless lump, barely moving from the couch and uninterested in even the slightest change; but it's a suggestion that perhaps learning to be happy with what you have, where you are, and with what interests you, is, in the long run, precisely what will make you happy.

Lump definitions

noun

a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

See also: ball clod glob clump chunk

noun

an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

See also: swelling puffiness

noun

an awkward stupid person

See also: lout clod stumblebum goon lubber lummox gawk

noun

a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal"

See also: hunk

verb

put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants"

See also: chunk

verb

group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

See also: collocate chunk