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How to use bumper in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Bumper means someone or something that bumps. Example: “The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.”

Examples of bumper by meaning

nounAny mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.

  • The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.

adjectiveWonderfully large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo, or successful in this regard.

  • a bumper collection of silly jokes
  • What a bumper year for apples!
  • We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.

More sentences with bumper

  • The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.From the entry body
  • Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.From the entry politics
  • You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.From the entry gutter
  • He has a bumper sticker on his van that reads "faster than a speeding ticket".From the entry bumper sticker
  • The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year.From the entry bumper crop
  • My front bumper is currently only held on by duct tape, but, hey, if it works, it works!From the entry if it works, it works
  • We’ve got a bumper sticker that says ‘Ithaca: 10 square miles surrounded by reality’.2018 November 20, Emma John, quoting Kash Iraggi-Wiggins, “The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state”, in…. From the entry Ithacan
  • Yes — in fact, a lot of luxury cars don’t even have bumpers anymore.2012 September 21, Pagan Kennedy, “Who Made That Bumper Sticker?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry bumper sticker
  • Visitors of all ages particularly enjoy the bumper cars, coin-operated ride-ons, and arcade games.2012, Phyllis Thomas, Indiana Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places, page 3. From the entry ride-on
  • I placed the base under the back bumper and inserted the long notched pole into it.2012, Larry Wade Livingston, “Thank you; but!”, in Short Stories from My Heart, page 57. From the entry bumper jack
  • Carl Edwards spent most of his Saturday evening trying to get to Kyle Busch’s rear bumper.2008 August 24, Dave Ongie, “Edwards eases Busch aside, claims Sharpie 500 victory”, in timesnews.net, US, retrieved 20 Apr 2011. From the entry money's worth
  • Seed production in scarlet oaks varies greatly from year to year; occasionally the trees produce bumper crops.2002, Charles Fergus, Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, page 118. From the entry scarlet oak
  • You'll fly through the game's levels at super speed, running through loop-the-loops and bouncing off bumpers.2002, Nintendo Power Advance. From the entry loop-the-loop
  • So you have to drive two inches away from the bumper in front of you.2001 June, Chloe Green [pseudonym; Suzanne Frank], chapter 1, in Designed to Die, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry ooch
  • Voters were registered and other t-shirted volunteers sold bumper stickers and buttons.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Run, Jane, Run”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry T-shirted
  • Ashes from the firewheels, spread through the fields, guarantee bumper crops for the coming seasons.1974, Rundschau, volume 4. From the entry firewheel
  • Republicans' entire approach to distracting low-information working-class whites with "dog whistle, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans" will have to change.2018, Val Atkinson, Distractions, Distortions, Deceptions, and Outright Lies: Diversiont that Keep the SOuth Red, Poor People Poor, and…. From the entry low-information
  • At the last moment, it slowed down, but it continued to ride his bumper all the way down Washington Street.2016 April 22, Christina Tetreault, Protecting The Billionaire: The Sherbrookes of Newport, book 7, Christina Tetreault, →ISBN. From the entry ride one's bumper
  • The prototype's other features included two-piece bumper bullets and anodized-gold Corvette script under the crossed-flags emblem and on the deck lid.2015, David Temple, Motorama: GM's Legendary Show & Concept Cars, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry bumper bullet
  • For us old timers; I removed their bumper jack.2012, Larry Wade Livingston, “Thank you; but!”, in Short Stories from My Heart, page 57. From the entry bumper jack
  • There were snowshoes, a turn-of-the-century broad axe, and a Palin-esque bumper sticker that said it all: “I'm Pro-Choice.2011, Leslie Anthony, White Planet: A Mad Dash Through Modern Global Ski Culture, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry Palin-esque
  • The upper was retained with a Hawley bite plane; the lip bumper was continued for an additional 18 months.2010, David R. Avery, Ralph E. McDonald, Jeffrey A. Dean, McDonald and Avery Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent. From the entry upper
  • News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.2007 June 4, “Loyal Mail”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 07 Oct 2010. From the entry exasperate
  • His website tracks meetings of FSM clubs (members dress up as pirates) and sells trinkets and bumper stickers.2007 November 16, Justin Pope, “Pasta theology: Scholars mull Spaghetti Monster”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2015. From the entry FSM
  • So if you don't move over, the Amby hits you in the rear and leaves a paint marker on your bumper?2003 October 22, Lon Stowell, “Ambulance bumper paint?”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Nov 2025. From the entry amby
  • Anthony Baker, now of Charlottesville but born and raised in New Jersey, proposes a bumper sticker: "Yeah, I'm From Joisey.2001 July 4, Bob Levey, “An Image Campaign for the N.J. Turnpike”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company…. From the entry sumptin
  • It's all here, from the ramps, bumpers and sinkholes to the satisfying "clack" when you make the high-score list.1997, Windows magazine, volume 8, numbers 1-3. From the entry sinkhole
  • The second tradeoff involves the increased control complexity to permit running cars at zero separation, or bumper to bumper.1971, Automated guideway transportation between and within cities, volume 1, page 107. From the entry crashable
  • Linkao County has reaped a great bumper harvest of early-rice with total production 30 percent more than last year.[1970 July 15 [1970 July 11], “Linkao County Bumper Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 136, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry Lingao
  • A bumper tea harvest has been gathered in Wuyuan County, Kiangsi Province, a famous green tea producing center, this year.1958 [1958 July 15], Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 1803-1823, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44. From the entry Wuyuan
  • Corn was a bumper crop and cobbed much above average so that silage will be above average in feeding value.1951, Monthly Crop & Live Stock Report - Volumes 368-416, page 14. From the entry cob
  • On the one hand, there is deep skepticism of Washington-based power — think of the tea party and its “Don’t tread on me” bumper stickers.2025 February 26, Aziz Huq, “Conservatives on the Supreme Court May Not Fully Align With Trump”, in Politico. From the entry muscular
  • His mom shakes her head at her silly little boy as she dashes to her Saab, which is missing its bumper— Sticky’s doing, no doubt.2022, Namwali Serpell, The Furrows, Hogarth, page 178. From the entry Saab
  • At the critical moment I'd learned from countless action flicks I dynamited the brakes and felt the impact of the sedan against my rear bumper.2018, Laird Barron, Blood Standard. From the entry dynamite
  • Slap that MERKLES HAPPEN bumper sticker on your shiny new Model T and praise the Lord some dumb nineteen-year-old rookie misran the bases.2018, David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik. From the entry misrun
  • The Jesus fish has become a symbol of modern Christianity, depicted on bumper stickers and jewelry to show that the owner is a Christian.2011, Gene Helfman, Bruce Collette, Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry Darwin fish

Meaning of bumper

  1. noun Someone or something that bumps.
  2. noun A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
  3. noun Anything large or successful.

Full definition of bumper

Questions about bumper in a sentence

How do you use bumper in a sentence?
Bumper is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.”
What is a short sentence with bumper?
“What a bumper year for apples!”
What does bumper mean?
Bumper means someone or something that bumps.

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