How To Use Humped In A Sentence
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Of particular significance to ancient Arabia was the domestication of the dromedary (one-humped camel) in the southern part of the peninsula between 3000 and 2500 B.C.E.
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The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night.
Isabelle
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Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay.
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Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin.
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Alanis thumped the heavy metal knocker against the door.
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I came flying from the back seat and thumped my head on the windscreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speech left me entirely then, and I am afraid I would have been most beautifully thumped, had not Sanders, the trainmaster, come over and stopped him.
Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
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Dave thumped the table in frustration .
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She couldn't get her breath and had to be thumped on the back.
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Her heart thumped wildly as she was welcomed by familiar faces.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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He thumped the report down on my desk.
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He thumped a chance over the bar.
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I came flying from the back seat and thumped my head on the windscreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Voices still chattered in the hallway, doors squeaked open, slammed shut, feet thumped, tramped up and down the stairs.
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She thumped the table with her fist.
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He was thirty-four, but looked much older, had a grotesquely humped back, a grey beard and droopy moustache.
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I thought the karma he got by repeatedly getting chumped off by Obama, was deliciously deserved for the disdain he held for Bush; who always seemed to hold our allies with great respect.
On being called a bigot and/or racist
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I got round to stop him doing it and he managed to open the door and thumped me.
The Sun
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But this afternoon while the assayer was dragging you out of the prospect hole, and I was watching through your field glasses, I happened to turn them in the direction of the pesthouse, and there he was again, humped up on the doorsill, watching through glasses of his own.
Tabitha's Vacation
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The doors thumped shut behind her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Garth, bless his simple heart, kept calling the derro he saw 'the humped one.'
Flint, the King
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Apparently, she would have preferred to be humped on the first “date” like some drunk slag he scraped off the bathroom floor at Karma.
Shore Thing
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The cupboard door kept swinging open only to be thumped closed by Ivan, who had incorporated this gesture into the rhythm of the dance.
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He gazed ruminantly away from the lagoon to the pool of Psyche, where the Tahitian women squatted on their shapely haunches and thumped their clothes.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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My heart thumped as I suddenly heard the outside screen door slowly creak open.
Christianity Today
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A rock song played in the background and the crowd thumped along to the beat.
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He was so angry that he thumped the table with his fist.
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When I tried to stop him he hit me in the face and knocked my glasses flying, then he thumped me in the chest.
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The young striker, on loan from Aston Villa, thumped the ball home.
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It was a time when everything was very basic, a time when cars were non existent in the area and the humped back stone bridge was the local landmark.
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She thumped the desk with her fist.
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The whole house was so glad that the scoundrel had been exposed that they set up siccan a roar of laughter, and thumped away at siccan a rate with their feet that down fell the place they called the gallery, all the folk in't being hurl'd topsy-turvy among the sawdust on the floor below.
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He thumped the report down on my desk.
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While his heart thumped eagerly he went with slow and pretended reluctance back to the old desk.
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The Soviet national anthem and the Moscow Festival song were thumped out by the band.
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His heart thumped with excitement at the sight of the girl.
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One poor guy gagged on his retainer and his pal thumped him on the back.
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She thumped a small deerskin pouch on the countertop and poured out a cluster of unset turquoise nuggets and fragments.
SKINWALKERS
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The finds suggest that the massive dromedary - or single-humped camel - was hunted by prehistoric people, the researchers add.
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For a boxcar of widgets to make it across country, it typically has to stop and sit in rail yards waiting to get "humped," or reshuffled, with other boxcars headed in the same direction five times.
Join The Cold Train
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The doors thumped shut behind her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dressed in a cashmere twin set and pearl necklace, she stood making the sign of the horns with her hand, sticking out her tongue, and screaming like crazy while her daughter humped a piano bench onstage.
Welcome to My World
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He thumped out a tune on the piano.
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Yes, there it was in the boys, those gossamery boys who thumped the stage.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Farm in Yilan County's Sansing Township often get "humped" and put in the family way by wild boars.
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Before she could step outside, her mother's powerful hand thumped the door shut.
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The one-humped Arabian camel is also known as the dromedary.
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She was thumped in the back during the robbery and her handbag, containing credit cards, was taken.
The Sun
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Another man sat on a tyre worn smooth which he slapped and thumped like a tam-tam.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.
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All Rights Reserved to Tooth & Nail Records Lyrics: on a cold December, just before dawn as the sun said "hello" to the sky the mantis prayed while the lamellicorn tumbled and rolled in a threadbare tie the holland lops in the Callicoon glades indignantly thumped their feet and hopped away when they cut their noses on the sharp-tipped blades (since the grass doesn't mind in the least) the heat pad waiting in the chicken-wire hutch where the does from the netherlands stay but that dry alfalfa don't taste like much and we're tired of the timothy hay
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When he pulled the trigger his bullet thumped into the log and the crow flew lazily away unscathed.
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As "The Cup of Life" thumped over the speakers at the Washington Convention Center Saturday night, two giant video screens parted and out strolled a bestubbled Ricky Martin in a velvet-lapelled tux to huge cheers from the 3,100 guests.
Ricky Martin turns Human Rights Campaign dinner into surprise coming-out party
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My heart thumped in my mouth as cyclists parted this sea of sweaty, screaming, sign-toting, picture-snapping fans.
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A hissing noise of escaping gas from the ruptured mains suddenly thumped into flame and burst across the street, pushing the firemen back.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Sir Clive Woodward's side were thumped 51-15 by Australia following back-to-back defeats to New Zealand.
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My heart thumped as I suddenly heard the outside screen door slowly creak open.
Christianity Today
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He thumped his fist down onto the table.
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So I thumped it down in round buns and put on the dried blueberries, and lordy, I have never seen such stemmy dried blueberries.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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One, found in northern Africa and central Asia, consists of the dromedary (one-humped camel) and bactrian camels (two-humped camel).
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The two-humped beasts could provide valuable salt-tolerance genes for domestic livestock, allowing them to thrive in previously hostile areas.
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‘Try not to behave like a ravenous pig tonight, dear,’ she was saying in her diplomatic yet definitive way, as the lamb shanks and pots of stewed tripe thumped down on our table.
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His feet thumped loudly on the bare boards.
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The heartbeat of a tranquil and proud village thumped with a louder beat when native sons and daughters turned out in force to pay tribute to one of the own who had reached the promised land.
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Camels, both the one-humped Arabian or dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian variety, have been used to support campaigns in desert areas from biblical times onwards.
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You walked in there, you thumped a desk and they wobbled.
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A hissing noise of escaping gas from the ruptured mains suddenly thumped into flame and burst across the street, pushing the firemen back.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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I got round to stop him doing it and he managed to open the door and thumped me.
The Sun
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My heart thumped as I suddenly heard the outside screen door slowly creak open.
Christianity Today
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I just do not understand how you can defen Obama against so called racial insensitivity from dumpsters when it was Biden being chumped.
"I don’t know whether it was an attempt to diminish what I had done in '88, or to say Barack is all style and no substance."
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Old men in shorts and vests played chess in a breezy pavilion as families surged across a twee, humped bridge.
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Ramirez thumped his fist on the table; candelabra leapt into the air, fruit spilled from the baskets and soup spilt onto the dark table.
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When he spotted Shama coming towards him, dressed in a yellow floral-patterned sari, his heart thumped heavily with excitement.
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He made it back to Fells Point by dusk, and humped the Gibson case up the narrow turns of the stairway to his third floor apartment, which he was lucky to have, given the rush of gentrification round the nabe.
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He had enormous shoulders, fairly "humped" with layers of fat.
A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
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At least with his old look hoodies would have been too frightened to have thumped him.
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Her heart thumped wildly as she was welcomed by familiar faces.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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We have set up tours, got work permits, worked out hotels and humped equipment for our artists.
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He was so angry that he thumped the table with his fist.
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Kozinski ripped open a package of printing paper and thumped the stack against a table to align the edges.
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Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin.
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a one-humped camel
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In dromedaries - and also in two-humped Asian camels and South American llamas - about half the antibodies circulating in the blood lack a light chain.
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Another fusillade of shots clipped nets and thumped into wood.
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I just grabbed that old banjo and started thumpin' on it - and thumped out a tune.
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The woodpecker sat on his perch with wings held tightly against his sides, "humped" up as though he were high-shouldered.
In Nesting Time
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He thumped out a tune on the piano.
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As he spoke, the powerful rotors of two U.S. military helicopters thumped in the distance, and a deliveryman arrived with another truckload of spiced Irish fruitbread, called brack, rebranded "Barack's Brack" for this month and bearing a cartoon portrait of the president.
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My heart thumped as I suddenly heard the outside screen door slowly creak open.
Christianity Today
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He was tall and broad with humped shoulders.
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When he tried to sit up, the room whirled and his head thumped like a pile-driver.
The Elvis Latte
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It came to me that their behavior was like that of hungry dogs, and in the fitness of things I should not have been astonished had Zilla suddenly developed a tail and thumped it on the floor in right doggish fashion.
The White Man's Way
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Wiig plays Annie, first seen being humped vigorously by the wittily caddish Jon Hamm, who doesn't notice or care that his partner isn't exactly enjoying herself.
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A burly man who seemed to be all bristling black hair thumped Sam on the shoulder.
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Rooney thumped his fist into the ground and Richardson promptly took his place in the dug - out.
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Everything had to be humped up and down countless stairs to get into the room - tables, chairs, the dozen or more boxes of crockery, all the catering equipment, and the well-stocked bar too.
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Black fangs clacked, and its shiny, humped abdomen bore the red hourglass markings of a black widow spider.
Master of Mirrors
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And one of his shoulders was kind of humped up and to one side, and one of his hands had a stiff thumb.
Mitch Miller
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I was humped like an old lady.
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The timbers of the Golden Island opened with the crash, and she filled, and never lifted or thumped, but lay swept by each billow, like a rock at half-tide, immovable by reason of her heavy cargo.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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In the end Ottawa went on to beat Toronto in a squeaker and thumped Guelph in a 7-1 rout for the championship.
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Fil-Am - who were formerly known as MSS - once again showed some real class after an easy game against Kaibigan Uno whom they thumped by 25 points 95-70.
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
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Usually it is seen crouching or sitting with humped shoulders.
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He thumped my shoulder affectionately, nearly knocking me over.
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My arms ached like they'd been repeatedly thumped, and there was an aching in my stomach which suggested they'd given me a hefty kick in the balls.
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The more He gets chumped out saying, "That depends on what the definition of is is," the worse He looks.
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They walked with humped shoulders, lawn chairs in tow, without so much as a sound, save for the clinking of car-keys in ready.
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A wound on her leg had been scabbed over and was extremely tender, and her head pounded and thumped with an ugly ache.
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I thumped the mahogany table in fury and told Peat to take a letter for the prime minister.
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Actually Bruce it was two assertions that Peabrain got chumped for.
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Old men in shorts and vests played chess in a breezy pavilion as families surged across a twee, humped bridge.
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The striker thumped the ball in the net before pulling off his shirt and celebrating having beaten Reynolds' record.
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I do not remember the words, but they were gross: the chief _fun_ seemed to consist in the chorus, -- a sort of _burring_ noise being made with the lips, while the doubled fists were rubbed and thumped upon the thigh, as if the cobbler's lapstone had been there.
Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851
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Between them, live-oaks and kudzu grow in humped green walls.
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He laughed and thumped the table in appreciation, then twisted his fist in front of his nose, miming a snout.
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Suffice it to say that all the Apple Crisp got served, I got fourteen votes for "Best Dessert" but got chumped by a guy who'd been coming for ten years with his very good Banana Pudding (he got 55 votes - twice as many as anyone else in the room), and I discovered that black people love Apple Crisp.
Witness The Anal Retentiveness Of One Man!
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A kaumatua thumped his ornately carved tokotoko on the chapel floor and demanded to know why it was taking so long for the church to recognize her virtues.
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And if the Democrats are bad at one thing, it's noticing that they're constantly getting chumped into fighting with the Republicans over Republican talking points.
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He was tall and broad with humped shoulders.
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It went down brilliantly until the day my friend thumped the hourglass - and sand began to trickle through.
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He cleared his throat, thumped on his chest a bit, then threw his arms out wide.
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He was so angry that he thumped the table with his fist.
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He thumped my shoulder affectionately, nearly knocking me over.
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The tiger humped his back before he sprang on the game.
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You were severely chumped, my friend, and you know it.
A Note from Russ Buchanan to his Old Chum Max Baucus
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The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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The magic of the cup is one thing, but should a team really qualify for Europe without defeating a single Premiership side and then being thumped in the final?
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I humped the heavy case upstairs.
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Heritage volunteers - many of them no longer in the prime of youth - literally humped everything up two flights of stairs in a bucket chain.
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‘Shut up,’ Donal growled as he thumped the book closed and moved to stand in front of the table.
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Barely fifty yards from the boat a Humped Back Whale breached, rising over thirty feet out of the water before twisting and falling back into the sea with an amazing crash.
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Most biologists consider it the direct descendant of the ancestor of the domesticated two-humped species.
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In the Corps, as you can imagine, we 'humped' a lot (for you soldiers or civilians that's
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He thumped his little fists on the table.
Somewhere East of Life
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He thumped the desk as he rammed his point home.
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Something heavy thumped into my shoulder and I cried out as I was sent sprawling to the floor, thudding to the ground.
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There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.
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Because any compilation would show just how regularly you get chumped for weak assertions, distortions, and just plain lies.
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She thumped her hand on the witness box.
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The shrouded outline of a humped rock above the water seemed briefly to be a human form, crouching, waiting for a signal.
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Dave thumped the table in frustration .
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Males grow humped backs and hooked jaws, and females keep their sleeker shape.
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She couldn't get her breath and had to be thumped on the back.
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The lake was wide at this point, so wide the far bank was only a dim haze, and the water humped up in whitecaps in the middle where the peninsulas fell away and the wind hit it.
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He thumped his little fists on the table.
Somewhere East of Life
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I chumped out a bit and showed the kiddos a 20 minute movie about growing a flower.
Fleur de Jelly Belly
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The kick on the third shot sent me stumbling back a step and I fell against the wooden railing, felt it give, and then before I had time to catch on, something big and hard and solid whumped the wind right out of me.
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My boots thumped against cobbles and breath rasped in my lungs as the guard tried one door, then another.
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The bullets thumped into the wet blanket in front of me, making it jump like there was a bear inside.
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Huge tunas were humped off to local restaurants.
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She thumped her chest with her fist.
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Carlow hearts thumped in time with the drum roll as six shining envelopes were brought to the stage at the Brandon Hotel, each containing just one name.
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You should hear a hollow sound when the melon is thumped.
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I ran up the winding stairs, grabbed a washcloth from the bathroom, dropped my jeans, jumped onto my bed, and humped the soft fabric of the bedcover.
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But his hips were hardly snug in the saddle, when the wicked Comanche "humped" his back, and entered upon a round of kicking which seemed to exhibit every pose and attitude of equestrian exercise.
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He thumped my shoulder affectionately, nearly knocking me over.
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He thumped his fist on the metal floor and grinned weakly.
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When Henman took the third he thumped his fist to his chest.
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Some Americans may, after listening to his incessant talking over the coming weeks, agree with the Bard: "Zounds, I was never so bethumped with words" (King John).
Ken Adelman: Will Power
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One group eventually crossed the Bering Land Bridge to Asia where, following an evolutionary path that's only sketchily understood, it became the two-humped Bactrian camel and the one-humped dromedary.
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Some think that today's one-humped dromedary also derived from this two-humped camel ancestor.
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After seeing a fox, wallabies thumped their hind feet in alarm, suppressed foraging, and increased looking.
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Rocker Gene Simmons has filed legal papers disputing allegations he "humped" and "grinded" against a TV make-up artist during an appearance on ESPN.
JAM! Showbiz
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Ferd just got monkey-humped by little baby Cthulhu.
FRED AND SHARON STRIKE AGAIN
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But as years passed, ghouls like Tenner left me feeling chumped.
Pondering Death Row
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She weakly lifted her head and whined, her tail thumped once.
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Tom humped himself with two hands pressing his stomach.
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Lederer says solemnly "As a word-bethumped language guy, I adhere firmly to the blooper snooper's code, taking only what I find and contriving nothing," but I believe him exactly as much as I believe a teller of tall tales who swears that this really happened.
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Hoss thumped down the stairs, his arms full of extra clothes for Adam and a large bag of medicinals.
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She thumped her hand on the witness box.
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The Aussies gave us a hiding in Sydney two weeks before and now we've thumped them at Ellis Park.
