Used in a Sentence

lump

How to use lump in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for lump.

Editorial note

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

Examples13
Definitions6
Parts of speech2

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lump gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

noun

an awkward stupid person

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lump.

noun

an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

noun

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

verb

put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants"

verb

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

Example sentences

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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.

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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.

11

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...

12

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.

13

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.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lump in a sentence?

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

What does lump mean?

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

What part of speech is lump?

lump is commonly used as noun, verb.