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• Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.From the entry screen
• On the rock walls, there are several clumps of northern rock-cress.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 155. From the entry northern rock cress
• I found a clump of amolilla and dug some of the roots, scraping them into hot water.2018, Louis L’Amour, Riders of the Dawn: A Western Duo. From the entry amolilla
• Yesterday's snow collected in black sootening clumps, some streaked yellow by wanton dogs.2016, Paul Quintanilla, Jamie Budlow. From the entry sooten
• The floor is littered with clumps of fake hair and vajazzle sequins.2015 April 2, Tessa Clayton, Wannabe - Choose Your Own Celebrity Adventure, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry cycle path
• Either way, Brett went off the track and into a clump of birch trees.2014, Larry Bettag, No Rewind: Only One Shot, page 53. From the entry zig when one should zag
• The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas.2012, Michèle Roberts, Ignorance, page 218. From the entry chock-a-block
• Janesco clumped to the command console and said the scientific-age equivalent of “Open, sesame.”2009, Albert E. Cowdrey, “Paradiso Lost”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 116, page 108. From the entry open, sesame
• The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes.2003, J. Flash, An American Savage. From the entry slither
• Lapis lazuli is a complex clump of minerals, including haüyne, sodalite, nosean and lazurite.2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 321. From the entry haüyne
• This will tend to break up the clumps without drawing attention to yourself with the mana weave.1997 November 16, Roger Wink, “Re: Tournament Shuffling”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet). From the entry mana weave
• Little stands of trees stand in stooks, stalkily bundled and clumped by giants.1996, Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope’s Rhinoceros, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage, 1998, →ISBN, page 414. From the entry stalkily
• The camera pans slowly across ageless kid stuff: baseball cards, posters, clumps of dirty laundry.1993 December 16, Patricia Davis, “Does Johnny Have a Gun?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 28 Jun 2017. From the entry kid stuff
• This hollow, lumpy, yellow-brown algae grows epiphytically in sac-like clumps on large seaweeds and on rocks.1984, Deborah A. Coulombe, The Seaside Naturalist: A Guide to Study at the Seashore, page 33. From the entry algae
• There you looked and there you led me off into the game of clumps.1976, John Betjeman, Indoor Games near Newbury. From the entry clumps
• The clumping of hobnailed boots on the gravel outside proclaimed the approach of Manning.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 63. From the entry questioningly
• Common jelly fungus sometimes looks like a clump of ribbons but mostly it looks like glossy, golden-yellow or orange-yellow blobs .2024 March 8, Sandra Kynes, The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants: History, Folklore, Correspondences, and Spells, Llewellyn…. From the entry witch's butter
• She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 372. From the entry lye
• Sometimes accompanied by acceleration, ricing is different in that it creates small individual clumps of soap that look like rice granules.2016, Anne-Marie Faiola, Pure Soapmaking, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry ricing
• In addressing the question, two specific types of macroclump geometries are explored: shell fragments ("pancake"-shaped) and spherical clumps.2016, Richard Ignace, “Long-Wavelength, Free-Free Spectral Energy Distributions from Porous Stellar Winds”, in arXiv. From the entry macroclump
• An individual biscuitroot clump includes many clones.2013, David Williams, Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country, page 49. From the entry biscuitroot
• Even as he worked a soft grey clump from the bristles of a dustbrush, Sucks to you, Boo, thought Tom.2012, Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog, page 168. From the entry dustbrush
• As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.2011 August 8, M. W. Hubbell, “Chemistry”, in The Fundamentals of Nuclear Power Generation: Questions and Answers, Bloomington, Ind.…. From the entry suspension
• The misshapen, clumped cells are termed cornified.2011, Margaret V. Root Kustritz, Clinical Canine and Feline Reproduction: Evidence-Based Answers, page 7. From the entry squame
• “I like your hair,” Grace said, gently pulling at the clump standing armed sentinel over my widow's peak.2010, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, Random House, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry widow's peak
• Cooper’s tender salvias are wintering over, and he plans to leave a few clumps of cannas in the ground next fall.2007 January 18, Anne Raver, “Is It Spring? Winter? What’s a Flower to Think?”, in New York Times. From the entry canna
• Christmas fern can be massed as groundcover, or a clump looks nice tucked into the base of a stump.2006, Lynn M. Steiner, Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry Christmas fern
• It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN. From the entry casein
• "They pull off a small clump of grass with their teeth, and then they begin to slowly chew.2003, Brenda Waggoner, Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When You Expected Happily Ever After, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.…. From the entry goody
• Malacca cane grows in clumps in the jungle.1965, Charles Shuttleworth, Malayan Safari, page 88. From the entry malacca cane
• Some very fine specimens of the sealing-wax palm are to be seen in the Gardens; and also rich clumps of nibongs.1951, K. H. Khaw, Penang Information Guide, page 19. From the entry nibong
• Bradly scanned the lagoon up and down, searching the clumps of mangrove for the figure of a girl.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 77. From the entry tea tree
• At the foot of the garden, behind a clump of gooseberry-bushes, stood an arbour formed of a yellow buddleia.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix. From the entry buddleia
• In the easternmost corner behind the gate, she had planted a large clump of muguets, Christmas hellebores and a large yucca plant.2021 April 20, Hilary Miflin, The Green Fuse: …our deep connection with the power of plants, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry muguet
• Anyone who paused for a moment in this wasteland would hear the everlasting, clump, clump, clump; clump, clumper, clumper-clump of heavy boots on raised boards.2014, Michael Glover, The Fateful Battle Line, page 133. From the entry clumper
• Honey fungus (Armillaria mellea) is most obvious when, in autumn, clumps of honey-coloured, pale-stemmed toadstools appear at the base of a tree.2012, Ruth Binney, The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways, page 160. From the entry honey fungus

Meaning of clump

1. noun A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
2. noun A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
3. noun A small group of trees or other plants growing together.

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How do you use clump in a sentence?

Clump is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.”

What is a short sentence with clump?

“clump of trees”

What does clump mean?

Clump means a cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.