Clump in a sentence as a noun

Humans clump and cluster for all sorts of reasons.

The explanation could be simpler than that: you just don't notice when notable deaths don't clump together.

So, it encourages another sort of optimization: people looking for a ride tend to clump.

The effect of this was that every time they did something wrong, someone would start a clone of LJ and a clump of users would move over.

I just got the grade distribution from the last time it was taught and curved my class the same way. But this wasn't perfect... there would be a clump of five students who all got around the same numerical grade around a cutoff, and I'd round up rather than down.

Clump in a sentence as a verb

Normally this is nothing to write home about except that I had originally mistaken this insect for an assorted clump of debris.

Those denatured proteins then clump together irreversibly into a mass in living cells, similar to what happens to proteins when you boil an egg, according to the researchers.

A single clump early would actually dodge the worst outcome: where two separate magnets, one ahead of the other around an intestinal curve, attach to each other through the intestinal wall.

Like everything it was/is a complicated system with a lot of moving parts, and to clump it all into some homogenous bucket is basically give up on actually understanding.

Clump definitions

noun

a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"

See also: bunch cluster clustering

noun

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

See also: ball clod glob lump chunk

noun

a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

See also: thump thumping clunk thud

verb

make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

See also: clop clunk plunk

verb

come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

See also: cluster constellate flock

verb

walk clumsily

See also: clomp

verb

gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

See also: bunch bundle cluster