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How to use bumpy in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Bumpy means rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements. Example: “Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.”

Examples of bumpy by meaning

adjectiveRough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.

  • a bumpy ride
  • a bumpy flight
  • There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120

More sentences with bumpy

  • Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.From the entry belt
  • It was small and bumpy, with a tinge of orange.From the entry with
  • We prepared for a bumpy ride.From the entry prepare
  • Imagine they had to endure non-aircon and bumpy bus-rides either sitting or standing to reach their destinations.2008 July 4, “Another complain Queen on MRT!”, in MyCarForum of SgCarmart, retrieved 02 Nov 2017. From the entry complain queen
  • She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry chronic
  • Clearly, signifying ain't lost a beat on the bumpy ride from Africa to America.2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, Detroit, M.I.: Wayne…. From the entry sig
  • Be warned, as we continue our journey – the road ahead is bumpy and paved with weirdness.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex…. From the entry weirdness
  • In general upward changes are bumpy; downward changes, including kick-downs, are O.K.1969, The Motor - Volume 135, page 73. From the entry kick-down
  • While this was tremendous fun, the week also revealed the limitations and sometimes bumpy consequences of the guest editorships.2009 January 3, Elisabeth Mahoney, “Radio 4's Today programme livened up by guest editors”, in The Guardian. From the entry editorship
  • But for Clinton the yellow brick road that led inevitably to the Democratic nomination has suddenly become a little bumpy.2007 December 21, “Hillary's mountain gets higher”, in The Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry yellow brick road
  • Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17). From the entry caulking
  • On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time. From the entry waterlogged
  • On our bumpy, mud-soaked ride to the Grand Canyon’s lesser-visited East Rim, a coyote emerged from the sagebrush to lead the way.2025 November 7, Matt Kirouac, “A New Grand Canyon Lodge Lets You Explore This Lesser-Known Region of the National Park with Navajo…. From the entry sagebrush
  • It then attempts to answer, with much fanfaring, 'The world's most embarrassing questions', eg, 'Why is my chest getting bumpy', 'What's a wet dream?'1988, LA Youth Libraries Group, YLG Pamphlet - Issues 20-21; Issues 24-29, page 27. From the entry fanfaring
  • Meantime the old salt ("ex-coasting skipper" was writ large all over his person) had hobbled up alongside in his bumpy, shiny boots.1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “The Faithful River”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers…. From the entry writ large
  • The Moz was a little bumpy - too bumpy for a begintermediate anyhow, and that was the old standby from last year when the fam came out.2002 November 24, mwfr...@hotmail.com, “TR - Copper Mountain, Bever Creek, Vail (long)”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet). From the entry begintermediate
  • "I mean to say, bumpy in the springs and all that." "Oh, of course, I'd have them resprung and fresh covers made if you bought them."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 72. From the entry moth-eaten

Meaning of bumpy

  1. adjective Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.
  2. adjective Covered with or full of bumps.

Full definition of bumpy

Questions about bumpy in a sentence

How do you use bumpy in a sentence?
Bumpy is used as an adjective. For example: “Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.”
What is a short sentence with bumpy?
“a bumpy flight”
What does bumpy mean?
Bumpy means rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.

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