rump

How To Use rump In A Sentence

• This close-up view of what had been trumpeted as the greatest army on earth provided facts which took time to absorb. KARA KUSH
• A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
• The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
• Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
• I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
• All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
• And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
• Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
• It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
• Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.