How To Use Ump In A Sentence

We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
She jumped back with a little yelp of surprise.
Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted. Nerilka's Story

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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.
It sounds like a lot of hassle, a real triumph of so-called style over substance.
And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
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.
After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
My hand came into contact with a small lump.
At parties, it is like being in a maze: one constantly has to jump in the air in the hope of seeing a way out. Times, Sunday Times
With people still applauding, he jumped off the stage and made his way straight towards me. Times, Sunday Times
Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
External warts can appear as small bumps, or they may be flat, verrucous, or pedunculated.
FEARS were growing for a missing schoolgirl after police found her phone dumped in a park. The Sun
How do you know when to clap the triple jumpers? Times, Sunday Times
A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
The countless mini-roundabouts popping up where there just simply isn't room for a roundabout is another danger, increasing the number of small shunts & bumps.
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
Everything else is kind of lumped into the "overbooked" category that people say we see far too often in TNA. PWTorch.com
The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy.
Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
Some might say the club have taken refuge in recent years in the rosy glow of their triumph of 1967 so they might be as well moving permanently to the Portuguese capital.
Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier.
‘We tooted and tooted,’ says Harry, ‘until the white sugar lump melted into the pale horizon.’
They all escaped after jumping from the top floor of the burning house thanks to their neighbours' help.
Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
The man pumped up the pressure and returned to kneel in front of William. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
In a matter of hours, the Bay area was completely depleted of pumps, splashboards and self-bailers.
He asked if the guys could give him a jump-start.
Her father provided a motivation in her not only to succeed but to triumph. Times, Sunday Times
The glistening mushrooms were plump and earthy against the dry, crunchy pastry softened by the delicate, herby cream sauce.
Ralphs et al. suggested no difference in locoweed consumption between native cattle and cattle introduced to locoweed under natural grazing conditions.
To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
The new pump should produce an additional 220,000 liters per hour.
The decrease in myocardial oxygen consumption was evidenced by a gradual decline in atrioventricular oxygen difference, indicating a decrease in myocardial oxygen uptake relative to supply.
This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus 'agonies; or if no force opens a way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to bear an alien rule and a Teucrian lord.' The Aeneid of Virgil
It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation.
Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
Both of the boys jumped out onto the stage, and slid on their knees to the front of the stage.
Definition: Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period.
For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
I long for the Monday nights before he came along when the second I got hungry I could stand by the kitchen TV watching "The Bachelorette," while whumping down a salade nicoise. Susan Orlins: Dating After Divorce: What if I Meet a Guy I Like?
The slump in prices was largely attributed to inferior quality tea being produced by various India gardens.
I must pump the tyres up on my bike.
In this alone it stands as a triumph of contrarianism.
The path follows the river closely, occasionally deviating round a clump of trees.
People like Momtaz Begum simply sweep up their waste and dump it into the barrel.
‘It will therefore serve a better purpose to issue official statements for media consumption,’ Bernama quoted him as saying.
She was unceremoniously dumped to be replaced by a leader who could win the election.
By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
8356A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Quotations
Granted, people often clump together for mutual protection from an outside enemy. Christianity Today
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.
The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
Zaheer bowled a good length in the final overs and got one right in the blockhole to shatter the stumps of Sami and after that Moin was clean bowled by Balaji and India won by 40 runs with Pakistan allout for 253. Archive 2004-03-01
OOh gosh 20 whole cm women & children first, man the life boats, wind the winches & pump the bilges. Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill.
In fact, areas where the outdoor temperature routinely falls to about 15 degrees are not good candidates for heat pumps.
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
My little daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.
Beatle news briefs: Paul poll jumping; EMI makes another move; Cilla Black may be 'coronated' WN.com - Articles related to Ace Frehley Shouts It Out Loud at the Nokia Theater
There are numerous non-French vineyards pumping out inauthentic champagne.
It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
It would also replace VAT with "eco-taxes" designed to modify people's consumption.
The following data on the electric conductance of F 0 were obtained in the presence of myxothiazol, to avoid the complications caused by the electrogenic and proton pumping activity of bc 1.
At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly.
And I do believe that that bumpkin 's flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago. STARDUST
As it becomes more expensive to dump dangerous waste, so the economic advantages of shredding deteriorate.
Another disease caused by a fungus is “actinomycosis”, which in cattle and other animals is called “lumpy jaw”. A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases
Enjoy each other's company but take it slowly and don't jump ahead. The Sun
This is particularly true of the film's climax, which somehow manages to demolish several cop cars, and find Ellen clutching a parasail and jumping through flaming hoops in water skis, yet still be completely unfunny.
We are manufacturing of sweet potato dumplings, lotus crispy, matzo crispy, hibiscus crispy, sweet potato candy, fruit cakes, and fried rice crispy.
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
After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian _Leria_, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with _Melanthia_, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece, [A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Whatever pumped up your adrenaline, my darling, it took more than a chase to catch up with you.
Lectoure is a bustling market town and the best jumping-off point for a first visit to Le Gers.
It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
You mentionned the recent Vai proposal and I jumped head first into the whole issue of morae. Languagehat.com: LEPCHA [MORA].
We had the tradition of preserving food and drink for long time consumption, by watching when the leaves began to fall and when there were changes happening to Nature.
Hey, I'm all for cool action scenes in my SciFi, but -- if I may clarify the author's assumption -- stories that include inter-character relationships don't "alienate" me. Is Science Fiction Becoming 'Feminized'?
Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened. NPR Topics: News
The ladies took the stand for the second time during the surrebuttal and again dumped on Lana shamelessly. Guilty Feelings
Specter, who is in a tough primary race in the Rust Belt state of Pennsylvania, said Chinese subsidies and what he called dumping are "a form of international banditry. The Seattle Times
Jayson drew his swallow and jumped off his stead as Virgo let out a bellow as he tried to scare off the attackers.
Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
The output power and optical efficiency of different resonator parameters and pump power have been analyzed with numerical calculation.
Jumping over a bench in P.E. class isn't creative, but parkour forces you to think about how you can jump.
She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
Since I haven't read anybody else saying it yet, I'll jump up and be the first: they should be fired, at a bare minimum.
But it could be a bumpy road to get there. Times, Sunday Times
She was stumped by a question that asked her to construct a triangle with given angles and sides. Times, Sunday Times
No creditor is gonna want want a piece of your sweet assets these days unless you've got a nice fat down payment and a plunging debt-to-income ratio that reveals a nice plump credit score. How To Be A Sexy Borrower - The Consumerist
Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.
Once the war began, uniformed Americans participated in an inter-service contest for buckjumping and bareback riding at Wirth's Circus, Melbourne, in early 1943.
The truck dumped the coal on the ground.
Moving Houses was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but here it is played (in a revised version) by the frumpily named Ethel.
The cheapest way I can think of to make people feel like they owe you is to have a crumply cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food" and hold it up near a busy intersection. Don't Do Me Any Favors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Measles, mumps and rubella are unpleasant diseases and an epidemic in this country would be disastrous.
The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
I does create the rebuttable presumption of discrimination. Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
Nowhere is this properly explained in the bumph. Times, Sunday Times
A friend of the singer said: ‘She was thrilled because a year ago she was being written off and people were saying her career was heading for the dumper.’
It took me two days to do three "simple" jobs ... installing a shutoff valve behind a gas stove, replacing/fixing a tub faucet stem, and capping a sump pump. Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia
So I put the guitar on clean, put on the delay effect, and I arpeggiate the chords at the right speed to get this really crazy thumping sound. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
There was a sense of disorganisation at times, as in the 20th minute when Gabriel Heinze pumped an innocuous-looking high ball towards the penalty area which Brown and Smalling both went to clear and then left to one another. Chris Smalling helps make a shaky case for Manchester United's defence
Throughout the whole of competition policy there is a presumption that intervention is justified in order to preserve the public interest.
He's always crowing about his latest triumph.
It is autumn and they are pumping water out of the swimming pool.
The success of the barometer led to the development of primitive air pumps.
Lacy argued that he was misled by Stello when the arbiter pumped him out at second during an apparent steal attempt.
The tribesmen were all bunched together in clumps, and they too seemed frenzied with excitement.
While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
The President is keen to notch a political triumph that would foster freer world trade and faster economic growth.
Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
The Christian conspectus or theatre in the old sense has a happy ending, whether the protagonist triumphs or is damned, because God's justice has been done.
Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
The image jitters, there is a thump as the sound comes on, and a haggard, hair-covered face fills the frame.
Initial police reports suggested that he jumped the ticket barrier and ran onto the train.
The distributors will probably bump up the price of the software when the next version is released.
whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. DonationCoder.com Forum
McCain is nothing but a nebish and shlimazl ... just like this shlump of a preacher ... McCain officially rejects Hagee endorsement
Maybe I should bring along my trumpet to liven things up! The Sun
Even with my eyes closed, lying face down on the ground, all I could see was orange pumpkins.
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The front was embossed with a teal hummingbird sitting on a tie-dyed tree stump.
Britain's water companies are planning to meter water consumption.
For all its heart-thumping glory, it can also come with a heavy-duty helping of awkwardness and anxiety.
Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly. Rodney stone
We have seen how law and theory unite to provide a list of excuses which rebut the normal presumption of voluntariness.
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.
The pump is capable of producing 1400 litres per hour at 16 rpm from a depth of 40 metres and is effective up to a depth of 100 metres. Archive for » 2005 » September : Sustainablog
Teddington slumped to a 151 run defeat in one of their poorest performances of the season against Ealing on Saturday.
Much of this branch of your argument proceeds from unstated assumptions about the content of the ‘once and for all’ rule.
But then he decided to play his trump card .
Presumption is not reality.
Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
Non-governmental organizations were formed to oppose the pumping, and in 2001 the federal government launched an investigation into the company on the grounds it was violating constitutional prohibitions on demineralizing water.
It is worrisome for magazines and newspapers, since Internet media consumption is already higher than for print media.
Ever since we met at freshman orientation last year, we've bumped heads.
The pump is actuated by a belt driven by an electric motor.
Spending has been jump-started by a drop in interest rates to 30-year lows as well as by the best monsoon since 1988.
He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
It was low-key and it was not saturated with triumphalism.
I was on the driveway yesterday jumping around on my pogo stick.
She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
With recorded information the point of consumption can be anywhere from seconds to millennia ahead.
Ten men with chiselled faces and Kalashnikovs jump out and take up positions. Times, Sunday Times
The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Arrange clumps of fig and peach over the cream. Times, Sunday Times
They received invaluable technical advice from architect Colin Humphrey.
If gold was really to be demonetized, then the enormous stocks relative to flows would have to be dissipated first through consumption.
For it is an unexamined assumption that equality must be connected with representation. Times, Sunday Times
The term highlights the assumption that individuals act within a social context, that this context is not reducible to individual acts, and, most significantly, that the social context is not necessarily or wholly imposed. THE MORAL DIMENSION
They've got these almost like paper, or some kind of jumpsuits on, their heads covered. CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2005
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
His thin, white hair was clumped in oily points that yellowed at the tips.
Worse the loutish boys galumphed over and started acting as unwanted ballboys for our game.
She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
More than a dozen appliances, including 10 pumps and a breathing apparatus tender from Bolton, attended the fire which started at about 7pm.
It is arguably too tight now, making the car seem unsettled on small bumps and unpleasant on larger ones. Times, Sunday Times
Are either of these devices what you really need for data dumps from one PC to another?
The climax of these commotions came during the fourth week of September, when the parliament returned in triumph from its exile.
But hey, I guess if we are operating under the assumption that soccer fans revel in unfairness at the hands of a central, arbitrary power, they they will probably love this change. The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
She was sure the apartment above had a lump which protruded upward from the floor.
Things are still in the early stages and there may be some bumps along the road. Times, Sunday Times
A bicycle pump puts air into the tires.
What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
They bogled and butterflied to pumping dancehall rhythms until the wee hours of the morning. Larger Than Lyfe
A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more. Times, Sunday Times
Roger appeared with a plump stubborn Welsh pony, attached to a funny little cart which he gayly informed them was a "gingle. The Spanish Chest
The escalade was to be attempted by a band of ten; five of the trumpeters and buglemen were selected and four centurions, the Ligurian was to be their guide. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
The dual texture will give the dense pigments of a matte lippy plus a plump satin finish. The Sun
I met fuel-injection-pump rebuilders who knew the gross margins of every nozzle and pump they produced.
That he sloped off during an Eton v Harrow match to buy a trumpet, which cost £1, may not have been what his school and his parents intended, but it set him on a course which over the years has brought joy and instruction to many.
Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
A statue, for instance, is a kind of object which, unlike a lump of bronze, cannot survive much change to its shape.
They sat in a thoughtful moment before a boom of thunder sounded and Jane jumped.
Yovich was next to go, bowled for four by a beauty that clipped the top of off stump as it swung away from him.
The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
The sumpitan is a piece of hard wood, from six to eight feet in length and in circumference slightly larger than the handle of a broom. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
I have seen everything you listed except the department store dummy, but would add paint cans, freon cannisters, old TV's, and other stuff that are hazmat if you try to take them to the dump! One Trigger, Or Two?
In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common.
These pumps have been around for years and as winter rolls in, the only way to wear them under trousers is in the darker colors (slightly scuffed), with opaque tights. Does the Shoe Fit? Finding the Perfect Flat
The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
I feel the whole practice of gazumping completely unfair and underhand.
I resisted the strong temptation to tell him to go jump off a cliff, and kept quiet.

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