[
US
/ˈsəmp/
]
[ UK /sˈʌmp/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌmp/ ]
NOUN
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
How To Use sump In A Sentence
- Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
- Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
- Many of us are highly educated and your presumptions are most insulting.
- Although marijuana is technically illegal, personal consumption is arguably decriminalized due to the ‘ban on excessive punishment’ written into German law.
- They can't say conclusively he's not alive, and the presumption is they must aggressively pursue every avenue of this case. Scott Speicher
- More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
- For the life of me, I cannot fathom your continued application of the irrebuttable presumption that any individual held and interrogated by the admin is necessarily a murderer or an aider of a murderer. Balkinization
- After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
- But proposed regulations may force people to take stock of their daily energy consumption and could make us think twice about our festive decor. Times, Sunday Times
- Ralphs et al. suggested no difference in locoweed consumption between native cattle and cattle introduced to locoweed under natural grazing conditions.