How To Use Clump In A Sentence

The clump is the den area, and to the right are a couple of badger kids. Archive 2009-06-01
There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out. Home Life in Colonial Days
He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
The path follows the river closely, occasionally deviating round a clump of trees.
Granted, people often clump together for mutual protection from an outside enemy. Christianity Today

The tribesmen were all bunched together in clumps, and they too seemed frenzied with excitement.
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
Arrange clumps of fig and peach over the cream. Times, Sunday Times
His thin, white hair was clumped in oily points that yellowed at the tips.
The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
The children would gather in a noisy clump at the rear window to shout encouragement and offer coaching tips to their pursuer.
A team of chemists found that when certain substances are diluted in water, the molecules clump together instead of getting further apart, as common sense would suggest.
Marine base in the province until, one day soon, the American military can install him in an “abandoned government building” or simple "a clump of ruins" in that city. Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan
You should not see large clumps of flour in the batter.
With large clumps dig up the entire plant and split using back-to-back garden forks pushed together. Times, Sunday Times
Some, called runners, spread exuberantly, and others are classified as clumpers, which slowly expands from the original planting.
And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
Those in the front heard her voice coming around the sides of the megaphone, those in the back heard the amplified version, and the clump in the middle heard echoes.
Once flowering is over, lift and divide overgrown clumps of bearded irises. Times, Sunday Times
This will help the granola to form crispy clumps without extra oil. The Sun
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
Once each clump grew to about 500 metal atoms, the platinum catalyzed its own growth and formed large, branching sheets that spread over the surface of the liposomes.
Further, interphase nuclei appeared disintegrated and some mitotic figures were clumped together.
My pulmonarias have been lovely this year, clumps of frosted leaves and pink and lilac flowers throughout the garden hiding the dying foliage of snowdrops and mingling with forget-me-nots.
Complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs - cells. The Sun
Next, he says that if one wants to add value, one stays out of tug-of-war and instead looks for issues or positions that are outside of the standard clumps. Ideological Games of Tug-of-War, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
To escape a drenching, I sheltered in a clump of trees.
A certain Goodsir Canty's cornhouse stood near them in a clump of trees beside the road, and as the door was open they crept in, gulped down great "chunks" of cake, distributed vast slices of what was left about their persons, Obed taking by far the lion's share, and then they parted, vowing eternal secrecy. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
Complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs - cells. The Sun
I will think carefully about how to place the clumps during the planting work in December. Times, Sunday Times
Continue sifting until all of the clumps from the fragrance are worked into the powder and it is free-flowing. Anti-Talc - Day Two - Fragrance and Color
On our way from school in spring, a favourite pastime was to set fire to clumps of furze that grew in fields along the road.
Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site.
They clustered here and there in little clumps, whispering, while Reynard's crew scurried around reefing the sails.
Generally, the tropical bamboos tend to be clumpers and the temperate bamboos tend to be runners.
Splashes of yellow and pink are supplied by clumps of daffodils and bergenia.
Eventually they came clumping down the stairs - for their fancy dress they had all dressed up as school girls.
The card is a froth of glitter and highly scrumpled clumps of tissue paper.
Blitz for a few seconds until the dough clumps together (if doing this by hand it may take longer). Times, Sunday Times
Lavender, rosemary and thyme gathered in thick clumps under the windows, with poinsettias, passionflower, marigolds, marguerites and hollyhocks growing wild in the borders.
Anticoagulant drugs help prevent the formation of harmful clots in blood vessels by decreasing the blood's ability to clump together.
The second sandwolf peered from the side of the quarasote, then turned, and bounded to a second clump of quarasote, before vanishing into a gully so small that Wendra could barely make it out. Darkness
From her slim hands, poised delicatly = yet stiffly = around the remote to her car stereo, to the stretch of long, organized, red hair that dangles down the front of her hippish-styled Target shirt = of which she has purchased all they produced since last may = Shes batting her eyes at me, thick, clumped mascara on curled, lined eyelashes ... she speaks. Breakthedark Diary Entry
Thus new clumps of mistletoe form. Times, Sunday Times
They clump up happily over a few years in moist soil and you can divide them with ease. Times, Sunday Times
The scene that confronted us appeared tranquil: a flock of vultures perched, on watch, up in a clump of trees overlooking a large herd of waterbuck browsing on the near bank.
But domesticated grazers - with men guarding them and killing their predators - have no reason to clump together.
A matted clump of gray streaked blond hair sat on his head, looking like it should fall off as he leaned over and stared down at me.
In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
Think about a 1.5m clump of your favourite tickseed instead of the 60cm it is now. Times, Sunday Times
I swing my arms to propel myself out of a clump of these strange water plants.
Our large army moved with speed and grace behind our large clumpy tanks.
Prepare and strip another like-sized clump of fibers from the hen feather. How To Tie The Hottest Fly In The World
Immune cells within the brain go into overdrive, churning out substances that attract more immune cells, and white blood cells from the body flood in and join the fray, all clumping together to form destructive entities known as multinucleated giant cells. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Take the other half and split again, so one clump becomes three. Times, Sunday Times
This may seem generous but offsets quickly grow to form dense clumps. Times, Sunday Times
Last year there were dozens of them and they were taking over my perennial clumps. Times, Sunday Times
The yew topiary, the drifts of narcissi, the berberis darwiniae, the clumps of brilliant orange monbretia, all thrive. Hancox: All under one roof
Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil"). Cirrus Concerns
Commonly called the Lily of the Nile, the agapanthus is one of the stateliest garden plants of mid- to late-summer, forming large, vigorous clumps.
If you have bulbs in your garden, you can dig them up and break apart the clumps of bulbs, planting the bulblets and cormels independently as you would a bulb.
So I could infer the general composition of that… aggregate clump by the fireplace, but I'll be switched if I know its point of origin.
With stems and foliage of darkest purple, it forms clumps over time. Times, Sunday Times
Lavender, rosemary and thyme gathered in thick clumps under the windows, with poinsettias, passionflower, marigolds, marguerites and hollyhocks growing wild in the borders.
The statuesque theme continues in the vegetable garden where there are great fronds of fennel and huge clumps of Cynara Scolymus - globe artichoke, their purple thistle heads abuzz with bees.
Harris and Snelling were placed under keepers, who amused themselves by tormenting their unhappy prisoners in various ways; such as pricking them with their knives, cutting off small pieces of their ears and fingers, and pulling out clumps of their hair. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
It changes really, not up top, but the more we are watching guys workout and guys that we've had clumped in the sixth round we kind of reorganized those on their workouts and more information and more tape watching. Cleveland Browns : News
It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods. The Yosemite
The district is a run-down clump of ugly apartment blocks and unpaved streets.
I will think carefully about how to place the clumps during the planting work in December. Times, Sunday Times
On the words ‘No sense was stung’ the minim triads again banish the clumping quavers, though this time the triads are no simple concords, but a dominant seventh of E major followed by an F triad that is simultaneously major and minor.
A clump of palm trees ringed by white sand in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, it's a treasure map come to life.
They're gluing clumps of hair to my shoulders. Times, Sunday Times
You get a glimpse of this when you pull up a clump of grass and get a cubic foot of rootbound soil along with it. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
It's a very easy bulb to grow and is best planted in clumps or groups.
The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance. Sick Cycle Carousel
A spokesman for the Wetland Centre said there are already signs that this will be an excellent breeding year for amphibians with large clumps of frogspawn evident in shallow pools throughout the reserve.
By the bar stood a tight clump of people in sleek black clothing with cell phones the size of credit cards. The Heavenly Jukebox
He reached under him and cleared away a few large clumps of dirt, leaves, and twigs, and stones, which appeared ordinary but served as a good hiding place for the tunnel entrance.
After lifting and dividing, replant sections from outside the clump and discard the old center.
He drove the party through the grounds, sometimes over clumps of bush and through shrubbery as he lost the way in his excitement.
All around the two girls grew large specimens of fungi: mushrooms nearly as tall as them grew from the ground, and toadstools and bracken protruded from the rocky walls in clumps.
Why, given its exceedingly smooth beginnings, is the universe so clumpy, on all scales from galaxies to galactic superclusters?
He had spent the morning in a tiny clump of trees he called restful and shady, but whatever the shade among those trees, the heat was affecting him, too. A Crown of Swords
Lift and divide overcrowded clumps of perennials, including campanulas, daylilies, hostas, peonies, sedums, and Shasta daisies.
On a shelf or cup of the declivity was a little clump of vegetation, and in the midst of it welled up a thin stream of water. The Golden Fleece
His eyes scanned the muddy riverbank until he found what he was looking for: a large stick tangled in a clump of weeds.
He opened the door and walked up the stairs up toward the music wing, the snow falling off of his cloths and shoes in huge clumps.
The advantage of using compost is that in the spring you can spread it around the clump to useful effect, rather than having to remove it. Times, Sunday Times
The powder areas are like wide open fields, not too steep, enabling you to make turns at your leisure, spraying clumps of fluffy snow in both directions.
Complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs - cells. The Sun
Through the veiled windshield, clumped with white, Zip makes out your basic prefab split-level - a cheaper and less cared-for version of his own.
Although inflation was invoked to make the universe smooth, it can provide a certain degree of clumpiness.
Mainly because an orange-pip sized cell clump is not a baby. Abortion Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry | Her Bad Mother
He said streets will be "clumped" together as best possible and noted the city will work with the contractor to determine their availability. Tonawanda News Homepage
Janine walks by with an absent smile on her face and a clump of the man's hair in her fist.
The diva appeared to be one clump short of a full head as she sported a middle parting. The Sun
The animals are not tempted to eat the snowdrops, but when they rootle, it splits up the clumps, so after a couple of years, by the time the bulbs have settled and increased in size, they can be harvested and sold. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The asteroids are tiny worlds that should have clumped together to form another major planet.
It has the longest bloom time of any daylilies we grow and becomes a large clump so quickly it is a good one to passalong. Some Daylilies And A Surprise « Fairegarden
Milled rice contains agglomerates, or clumps, of starch and protein.
With large clumps dig up the entire plant and split using back-to-back garden forks pushed together. Times, Sunday Times
This is also a good way to maintain a clump that has naturally died out in the middle. Times, Sunday Times
Many large biological molecules like DNA seem to flout a basic law of nature: Although their charges have the same sign, they can attract one another and clump together in water.
Often the entire base of the bamboo clump is set on fire to facilitate the easy removal of dead bamboo.
One picture appeared to show clumps of hair on the pavement afterwards. Times, Sunday Times
For in that instant the she-wolf leaped sidewise from the trail into the clump of spruce trees and disappeared. The She-Wolf
‘Nothing, mom, she just wants to come over’ I clumped back upstairs and changed into a teal sweater and khaki bell-bottoms.
Big clumps can always spare a bit. Times, Sunday Times
This will help the granola to form crispy clumps without extra oil. The Sun
The ability to blend with low cover such as a clump of standing stalks or a brushy fence post gives the dove hunter two trumps.
Her hair was snowy white, tipped in black, twisted together in clumps to resemble feathers and pulled up out of her face with a black strip of leather.
Big clumps can always spare a bit. Times, Sunday Times
Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears.
He was offended to receive a clump of pasta with a token dollop of tomato sauce on it.
If you already have large clumps, this is the time to lift and divide them, which will stop them getting too congested and keep them flowering well. Times, Sunday Times
In the envelope and the bag was a clumpy, powdery gray dust -- dust that used to be the south tower of the World Trade Center, and that coated me and thousands of others with a force that pushed it deep into pockets, briefcases, ears and lungs on Sept. 11, 2001. September 11 Toxic Dust: Deciphering My Pocketful Of Terror
Each year when I leave Glebe Cottage for Chelsea, our "hot" borders are only just showing signs of waking up, with large clumps of Euphorbia palustris and their brilliant, lime-green tufts stealing centre stage. Gardens: Oriental poppies
This geum, which blooms on and off from May to October, is an attractive plant with coppery-pink flowers above a neat clump of fresh green leaves.
Cattle stare at flat-bed haulers gunning clumps of black smoke and lugging damaged drill pipe up the gullied, mud-hollowed road.
Then we noticed that the clump of algae was actually a wondrous crab, no bigger than a thumbnail, whose body shape had evolved to mimic the green wafers of algae.
The aim is to keep them chewy (though not inedibly so) and avoid the dreaded clumping. Times, Sunday Times
When a predator appears, older members of the herd emit intense warning calls that prompt the rest of the herd to clump together for protection and then flee the scene.
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
It was a tiny humming bird; he was sampling the vintages from a clump of daffodils, foxglove, trillium, and lady's slipper.
I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
Lumps in a starch paste are caused by clumps of granules gelatinizing on their outsides and becoming impervious.
Deciduous trees and shrubs are the best way to achieve this, but in a truly tiny garden, the answer might be a nice clump of zingy-yellow rudbeckia, or crimson sedum.
Use a single clump of deergrass in the landscape as a specimen, or plant three or five together to create an accent grouping.
Big clumps can always spare a bit. Times, Sunday Times
On the one hand they have a tendency to look to the right if I'm reading the topography right, but they also tend to clump to the black "bristles". Where In The Universe #86 | Universe Today
A clump of rank and tangled vegetation thus accumulates, seeds, and stimulates further growth.
Distinctive ebonies (Diospyros spp.) were common in dense clumps in the lowland forests. Sulawesi lowland rain forests
There were big clumps of soil on his boots.
In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
She was a gauche tomboy from the projects, in clumpy boots and combats.
It's so trendy there with all these trendy people and then there was me just clumping around but it was brilliant fun.
How many bulbs were there in the smallest and largest clumps? Times, Sunday Times
The legs also look particularly rigid, and the clumpy feet, lacking such details as claws, contact the ground bluntly.
It proceeded through a primitive embryonic endoderm, which clumped into embryoid bodies. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information
As soon as you turn left stop at the clump of trees on the right, this is a great spot for indigo buntings (didn't see any today but it's still a little early).
So for those who still dream, it'll have to be back to clumping around a garage with your cousin's motorbike helmet on backwards.
I would think that the richer feed from the fields might make the turds runnier or at least wetter and therefore more likely to clump together. Is it possible to tell a buck from a doe, just by its droppings?
Big clumps can become starved at the centre and it is worth dividing them in autumn so that the individual bulbs can find more nourishment. Times, Sunday Times
I was distracted from my thoughts by the clumping of male feet on the stairs, accompanied by snorts and that peculiarly Scottish sort of giggling usually depicted in print-but by no means adequately-as "Heuch, heuch, heuch! A Breath of Snow and Ashes
But as with all his other symptoms, the ulcer was abnormal, as demonstrated by the glossy white molars sprouting in a clump from its center. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The tribesmen were all bunched together in clumps, and they too seemed frenzied with excitement.
Aspirin reduces the risk of heart attack by reducing platelets' ability to clump together.
‘Clump of cells’ is baloney, as I have argued in my article ‘What Does It Mean to Be Human?’
Complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs - cells. The Sun
Moore escaped by the simple expedient of lying down in a clump of grass.
When they tire of it, hairstylists can ‘relax’ the perm without the risk of great clumps of hair landing on the salon floor.
Blitz until ingredients combine and clump together. The Sun
Rodgersia podophylla: a fabulous foliage plant, this clump-forming perennial produces large, textured leaves, tinged with reddish bronze when young. Times, Sunday Times
We passed the grove of young trees and clumps of shrubs, and came to the place where the ground began to fall away.
Instead, a farmer's son, Heaney sees it as the 'dark-clumped grass where cows or horses dunged,/the cluck when pith-lined chestnut-shells split open' (the latter a line that Hopkins would have welcomed). Heaney Agonistes
This separates the individual eggs from the clump, and I spread them out in a layer one egg thick.
This may cause the chocolate to seize, that is, to clump up. THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK
When some of them were shot, they dropped back to a clump of trees to regroup. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, this obliging plant seeds itself freely, so the number of clumps will gradually increase over the years.
A right-facing Liberty is centered on the obverse, her swept hair loosely clumped and streaming to the back. Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796 : Coin Guide
He was wearing clumpy blue and black trainers.
Lift and divide overcrowded clumps of perennials, including campanulas, daylilies, hostas, peonies, sedums, and Shasta daisies.
The upright clump of leaves observed on 11 December 1987 was a vestige of the future upright, leafy stem with very short internodes between the leaves.
I will think carefully about how to place the clumps during the planting work in December. Times, Sunday Times
When some of them were shot, they dropped back to a clump of trees to regroup. Times, Sunday Times
Yoon is a scientist with the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, and he embarked on this venture in 1989 with less than great enthusiasm: "When I first saw a clump of rather undistinguished-looking grass, it looked so ordinary and so frighteningly similar to the horrible 'lalang' 2 Case Studies
Take the other half and split again, so one clump becomes three. Times, Sunday Times
I'd seen a few stilts upstream, but now clumps of them were swooping and diving over the water.
Clumps of these delicate little pinkish blossoms and abundant leaves, cuddled close to the cold earth of northern forests, usually conceal near the dry leaves or moss from which they spring blind flowers that never open -- cleistogamous the botanists call them -- flowers that lack petals, as if they were immature buds; that lack odor, nectar, and entrance; yet they are perfectly mature, self-fertilized, and abundantly fruitful. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
I found five nests in the month of May from 23rd to 28th: one was on the ground in a field of indigo; the rest were in clumps of 'sone' grass and from the same field composed of this grass. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
His boots clumped loudly on the stone floor, accompanied by the sharp crackle of burning wood.
The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
Finally, the eggs congealed into shiny yellow clumps, and we sat down at the table to eat.
Where the lawn had been grew a large clump you could hardly call it a copse - of coconut palms.
Big clumps can always spare a bit. Times, Sunday Times
Take the other half and split again, so one clump becomes three. Times, Sunday Times
The chromatin was clumped, giving the nuclei a clear vesiculated appearance.
It's often said that Matthew Le Tissier didn't make the most of his sublime talent, though only by the clumpish and irritating. The Guardian World News
The yew topiary, the drifts of narcissi, the berberis darwiniae, the clumps of brilliant orange monbretia, all thrive. Hancox: All under one roof
The man in the clump is fat and bald, his chin deeply lined from mouth to jowl. L. Debard and Aliette
Once the cap has completely worn down, the chromosome frazzles and clumps, and then the cell dies. THE PROGRAM
Enter," he said wryly as the clumping and stomping of ironshod feet halted just outside the tent flap. War of the Twins
Cosmos, path-smothering nasturtium, stiff autumn crocus and clumps of busy Lizzie were in full bloom.
It was a tiny humming bird; he was sampling the vintages from a clump of daffodils, foxglove, trillium, and lady's slipper.
Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
If agglutinin is present and the test is giving a positive reaction, the bacilli _will_ be collected in large clumps. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
A large number of investigational therapies target a sticky substance called amyloid, which clumps in the brain of those with Alzheimer's and is thought to contribute to the disease, but so far no drug has consistently shown that targeting amyloid leads to improvements in cognitive symptoms. Alzheimer's Treatment Showcase Is Set
Basically, they are clumps of deep fried dough covered with powdered sugar.
The poultry-yard, stables, and cow-shed, relegated to the buildings near the pheasantry and hidden by clumps of trees, instead of afflicting the eye with their foul details, now blended those soft murmurs and cooings and the sound of flapping wings, which are among the most delightful accompaniments of Nature's eternal harmony, with the peculiar rustling sounds of the forest. Sons of the Soil
There is about the scene a feeling of deep rural repose: the occasional buzz of a hornet, the halfhearted peck of an odd stray hen scratching amid the clumps of cowitch begonia, perhaps the soft flip-and-splash of a hooked perch in some nearby fern-banked pond, or a supperbound catfish in one of the creeks. I Tina
One especially nice bonus of these undercoat brushes is that unlike ordinary brushes they don’t cause huge clouds of hair, but instead almost all the hair clumps in the tines, so there’s fewer problems for those with cat allergies, and of course less dead hair also means less dandruff, the cause of most cat allegies, so it’s a win-win device. Changing mobile phone email address would cause problems to three-quarters
For the last half-minute a sparrowhawk had been hovering over a clump of last year's dead weeds. PASSION IN THE PEAK
Instead of harvesting a few big trees to maximize sawlogs, each tree is carefully chosen to create openings, leaving trees of various sizes in clumps.
Only a small clump of blonde hair still remained in a frizzy pony tail.
This product will cause bacteria and loose dirt to clump together in the water tank.
A team of chemists in Korea found that when certain substances are diluted in water, the molecules clump together instead of getting further apart, as common sense would suggest.
Pulling apart a fully grown clump of any perennial inevitably makes the stems flop, since they no longer have support from each other. Times, Sunday Times
I could hear the footsteps getting closer and louder but I insisted to myself that my sloppy clumpy food was far more interesting.

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