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How to use bump in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Bump means a light blow or jolting collision. Example: “His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.”

Examples of bump by meaning

nounA light blow or jolting collision.

  • His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.

nounThe sound of such a collision.

  • He heard a loud bump and saw the front part of his car was broken and the driver of the other car was running to apologise.

nounAny light sound.

  • He heard bumps in the night.

nounA fist bump.

  • I held my fist up, and he gave me a bump before leaving.

nounA car accident, usually a small one.

  • I had a bump last time I drove into the city.

nounA collision, especially a fall.

  • Did you see the bump he took last night?

nounA dose of a drug, such as ketamine or cocaine, snorted; a small dose of a snorted drug.

  • “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right?2019 August 9, Joshua Azizi, “Shambhala Music Festival makes harm reduction a priority”, in The Georgia Straight

nounA conflict.

  • It happens during Libra—in the Jewish culture, once a year, weeks after the New Year, you look behind and are asked to forgive whoever you had a bump with in the last year.2020 September 28, Debra Silverman, “Libra/Aries Full Moon: The Grass Is Not Greener”, in Debra Silverman Astrology

More sentences with bump

  • The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.From the entry drag
  • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.From the entry weird
  • Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.From the entry knot
  • Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.From the entry beef
  • Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.From the entry phrenology
  • The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.From the entry crop
  • I accidentally bumped into him, and he flipped me the bird.From the entry flip the bird
  • He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?From the entry a
  • He bumped into the wall. I guess that's a risk you take when you read while walking.From the entry bump into
  • The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.From the entry cartwheel
  • We bumped into each other earlier, so we came together in a taxi.From the entry come together
  • Stop bumping me! You keep messing me up!From the entry mess up
  • The roads were so slippery that I couldn't stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me.From the entry bump into
  • It bumps up on the wall here.From the entry bump up
  • The legalization movement bumped up against political realities.From the entry bump up
  • A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.From the entry pea-souper
  • Going over that speed bump, my car bottomed out.From the entry bottom out
  • Jack just sat there like a bump on a log.From the entry like a bump on a log
  • For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts.2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times. From the entry course-correct
  • All around the ship, troubled waters bumped against it in warning.2022, Angela White, Troubled Waters. From the entry troubled waters
  • He showed reporters how it was done by demonstrating the elbow bump with Sen.2020 March 4, Adrianna Rodriguez, “Goodbye, handshake. Hello, elbow bump? Greetings to avoid during the coronavirus outbreak”, in USA…. From the entry elbow bump
  • Phrenology was the practice of correlating bumps on a skull with mental powers and attributes of character.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 86. From the entry phrenology
  • After smoothtalking some Air Canada reps at the gate, I got bumped up to first class.2017, John Gallagher, “Spanning the Globe”, in Big League Babble On: The Misadventures of a Rabble-Rousing Sportscaster and Why He Should…. From the entry smoothtalk
  • Ecoapartheid is just a speed bump on the road to ecoapocalypse.2016, Van Jones, “Making the Green Economy Work for Everyone”, in Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change. From the entry ecoapartheid
  • She bumped her glass, and a splash of mangotini landed on her lap.2016 March 15, Nina Crespo, Reid's Deliverance, volume 2, Lyrical Press, →ISBN. From the entry mangotini
  • Witch's hair (Alectoria sarmentosa) Branches smoother than in Usnea, with tiny, elongated bumps.2014 March 3, Richard Carstensen, Bob Armstrong, Rita M. O’Clair, The Nature of Southeast Alaska: A Guide to Plants, Animals, and…. From the entry witch's hair
  • The small bumps on the surface of each receptacle are conceptacles, chambers within which the gametangia grow.2013, George Karleskint, Jr.; Richard Turner; James W. Small, Jr., “Multicellular Primary Producers”, in Introduction to Marine Biology…. From the entry receptacle
  • Kimye and their baby bump celebrated the start of a new year in Las Vegas.2013 January 1, Ann Oldenburg, “Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome 2013”, in USA Today. From the entry Kimye
  • There were armpits in the face and lumps and bumps pressed against lumps and bumps.2013 December 2, “The accidental pervert”, in Head in a Blender, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024. From the entry nuts to butts
  • "My friend is due 2 weeks after me and she has this cute bump.2012, Carley Roney, The Baby Bump: 100s of Secrets to Surviving Those 9 Long Months, Chronicle Books, page 60. From the entry show
  • "They don't do nothing but teach the kids how to bump n wiggle."2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 788. From the entry wiggle
  • Combe felt her bumps and pronounced that she had an unusually large cerebellum, the seat of Amativeness.2012, Catherine Peters, “Court in the Act”, in Literary Review, number 399. From the entry amativeness

Meaning of bump

  1. noun A light blow or jolting collision.
  2. noun The sound of such a collision.
  3. noun Any light sound.

Full definition of bump

Questions about bump in a sentence

How do you use bump in a sentence?
Bump is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.”
What is a short sentence with bump?
“He heard bumps in the night.”
What does bump mean?
Bump means a light blow or jolting collision.

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