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Example sentences for "humpback"

Lexicographically close words:
humourous; humourously; humours; humoursome; hump; humpbacked; humpbacks; humped; humping; humpless
  1. After the humpback had heard them repeat: "Saturday and Sunday, and Monday!

  2. The humpback reached the place, and hid himself precisely where his companion had.

  3. The poor humpback thought he meant him, so he ran away and hid himself in a court-yard.

  4. They searched and found the poor humpback hidden.

  5. When the humpback had gone a long way, he came to a square where there was a fair, at which everything was sold.

  6. He returned to his place at Parma, and when the other humpback saw him he exclaimed: "Does not that look just like my friend?

  7. There is a humpback of hideous deformity and a Columbine of seraphic loveliness; and all Monsieur Goosequill's troubles come out of the fact that he endeavors to marry the humpback to the Columbine, who prefers to marry the harlequin.

  8. The School-teacher stood in the road watching the humpback lash the half-starved team.

  9. The humpback compressed the muscles of his mouth and nodded his head slowly.

  10. The big humpback looked out sidewise at the man standing in the road, with the child on his shoulder, its little arm around his neck, its little fingers on his face.

  11. More of the world pressed into the small bedroom of the humpback than the entire day had contained.

  12. Through the middle of the shrieking crowd, which blocked his way in all directions, the crying humpback pursued his schoolmate.

  13. For fear of Paulus and some other like-minded boys, they left the flushed humpback in peace--at least for the time being.

  14. That seems but just," concurred the king, "still, I doubt if our friend the humpback places very much value on the writing of his august sovereign.

  15. The real monarch of these regions is the humpback in Dunvegan Castle; and even if they knew you were the king, your sternest command would have no effect against his slightest wish, unless you had irresistible force at the back of you.

  16. The little humpback cows prance skittishly out of the paths; but the great buffaloes stand quite still and stare at us, then throw up their noses and sniff the air in an offended manner that in turn makes us afraid of them.

  17. Four weeks had gone by since the body of the humpback had been carried sorrowfully past the stations of the Seilersgasse into the quiet churchyard beyond.

  18. If the humpback could have produced work worth so much, what a thousand pities he should die with only one piece finished!

  19. It was over in a minute, nor would Sigmund deign to further punish the little humpback who had been ridiculous enough to attack him.

  20. As soon as the humpback had lit the lamp, Zonéla arose from the low stool on which she had been seated, and took Solon's hand affectionately in hers.

  21. The long arms of the humpback slowly rose, and Tessibel sang herself into the throbbing bosom of her father.

  22. The fifteen minutes allowed the girl were gone, and he slowly touched the humpback on the shoulder.

  23. But for a whole week we saw nothing but a grampus or so, a few loitering finbacks, and an occasional lean humpback bull certainly not worth chasing.

  24. A goodly bull-humpback had found his way in after us, and the sound of his spout, exaggerated a thousand times in the confinement of that mighty cavern, had frightened us all so that we nearly lost our breath.

  25. He assures us that, "with the Humpback the tone is much finer, sounding across the water like the 'E' string of a violin.

  26. Arrived at Pekin, the humpback pays the debts of a corpse, and has it buried.

  27. At a feast she proclaims the truth, cuts her husband into bits, sprinkles the heap of fragments with the water of life, and marries the handsome youth who at once arises--the humpback transformed.

  28. Our carriers brisked up; even the humpback straightened himself; and the pace quickened--to something close on three miles an hour.

  29. By the window our two boatmen squatted on the ground with palm and needle, mending the split sail, and beside them the humpback was playing jigs on a cheap accordion.

  30. I say, an' say again; You've got to tech a humpback to win out ten!

  31. An' how he done it wuz revealed to all us fellers when He said he teched a humpback to win out ten.

  32. The present population of humpback whales in the North Pacific is estimated to be about 1,000 animals.

  33. The workshop on problems related to Hawaiian humpback whales, sponsored by the Marine Mammal Commission in 1977, concluded that vessel traffic not oriented toward whales did not ordinarily seem to disturb them.

  34. Such luxury of space may not be available to the humpback whales of Glacier Bay and, due to geological configurations of its basin, vessel noise may be accentuated there.

  35. Humpback whales congregate in these areas to feed upon the summer blooms of euphausiids, herring, and capelin.

  36. In Lynn Canal, humpback whales were known to feed on herring (Clupea harengus pallasi).

  37. Much of the exploitation of humpback whales occurred in the twentieth century, especially during the early 1960's.

  38. The NMFS is now fully responsible for enforcement activities relating to humpback whales except in areas such as Glacier Bay where the responsibility is shared.

  39. But one day when the humpback was home alone with the woman, her husband having gone out to hunt, a powerful Manito came and carried her off, though Bokwewa used all his strength to save her.

  40. The humpback said he would try, and, after performing various ceremonies, succeeded in restoring her to life.

  41. One day the brother said to the humpback that he was going away to visit the habitations of men, and procure a wife.

  42. Then the humpback resumed his human shape and tried to reclaim his brother; but the brother was so taken up with the pleasures and dissipations into which he had fallen that he refused to give them up.

  43. My brother is in the middle of the Humpback Falls on a tree, and I want to save him.

  44. A dead man is nobody," observed the humpback didactically, walking up to them.

  45. The humpback pointed his finger at Zarubin, and said to Yevsey: "You see?

  46. We only raise humpback and dog here, the hatcheries for chinook and silver salmon are away up the river.

  47. A humpback is more in bulk an' has only a short fin on the back, it's a clumsy beast an' throws the flukes of the tail out of the water in soundin'.

  48. This is especially the case with the Rorquals, in which group the Humpback Whale, Megaptera, is to be included.

  49. The season lasts till about the end of August, when the run falls off, and is succeeded by the run of the humpback and dog salmon, which are of no commercial value.

  50. On the heels of the sockeye come the humpback and the dog salmon, about the same in size, and fine silvery fish before the breeding season sets in.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humpback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.