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Example sentences for "pump"

Lexicographically close words:
pumiceous; pumila; pummel; pummelled; pummelling; pumped; pumping; pumpkin; pumpkins; pumps
  1. There you are, water in plenty," he added, working the pump and sending a gushing torrent pouring from the ancient spout.

  2. And a water trough and pump in the yard," cried Tom, delighted at such a find.

  3. Adelaida tried to pump him a little by asking, "who was the uncle they were talking about, and what was it that had happened in Petersburg?

  4. I don't want you to suspect that I have simply come here to deceive you and pump information out of you!

  5. But he wouldn't laugh, and finally the Screw and the Centrifugal Bilge Pump and the Stringers and the other well-meaning Technicalities rose up to leave.

  6. The Davits will be here in a minute, and the Centrifugal Bilge Pump will drop in later.

  7. How could this pump have got so far from home?

  8. A California-built pump to clean water out of German trenches, in France!

  9. There, before my astonished eyes, resting upon a little platform of boards, stood a neat little centrifugal pump painted green and on the base of it in raised iron letters I read the words "Byron Jackson, San Francisco.

  10. With something like reverence I put the pump back again and, going to my place in the trench, dug out one of my bottles of champagne and stood treat to the crowd.

  11. In the east, one may easily have conceived the idea of loading some kind of pump with the Greek fire; as the use of a forcing pump for extinguishing fires was long known there before the invention of Callinicus.

  12. Davy found, that phosphuretted hydrogen produced a flash of light when admitted into the best vacuum that could be made by an excellent pump of Nairn's construction.

  13. A few more strokes of the pump handles, a few more gallons of water, and the fire, which had quickly attacked all parts of the cottage at once, died out.

  14. Some of you run that hand-pump over here where we can pour water in the tank.

  15. Hopeless my mental pump I try, The boxes hiss, the tube is dry; As those petroleum wells that spout Awhile like M.

  16. And wished to pump the spirits out, Through his or her own private spout, Into his or her decanter.

  17. Perhaps the pump and trough would do, If painted a judicious blue?

  18. Quarrelling was useless--Pump had the money; he was off to Dublin by the time I reached his mother's, and Polly radiant still.

  19. Presently Fanny and Pump obligingly came to London, where the third was born.

  20. Pump the Second becomes chief of the house, spins more and more money, marries his son to an Earl's daughter.

  21. Pump and I have always been rather distant.

  22. Let your son marry her, and she shall become Lady Blanche Pump and Aldgate.

  23. Pump and Aldgate, says he, 'your grandfather was a bricklayer, and his hod is still kept in the bank.

  24. Old Pump and Aldgate buys the article and pays the money.

  25. Old Pump and Aldgate clutches at the bargain.

  26. Green for Benjamin Harris; and are to be Sold at his Shop, by the Town Pump near the Change.

  27. As soon as I was big enough, they employed me to pump all the water for the use of the workhouse.

  28. Instead of mining for salt we shall have to pump for it, which is cheaper and better.

  29. Now to test the brine," said Mr. Vanter, as he sent the men for a pump and the necessary pipes.

  30. The "Pump House," it should be known, is a handsomely appointed club house under the patronage of the Omaha Wheel Club.

  31. Its name is derived from a large pneumatic pump which stands invitingly to all cyclists outside of the main entrance.

  32. Here we found that the veteran Jack Prince had stirred much enthusiasm in wheeling, and a banquet at the "Pump House" was the first of the chain of entertainment in store.

  33. Perhaps it was only an accident that had caused Larsen before he left the house to load his pump gun with black powder shells.

  34. The bars were shoved home; the barbarous cacophony of the clanking pump rose in the waist; and streams of ill-smelling water gushed on deck and made valleys in the slab guano.

  35. For the Public Good, aquaeducts made & sold by Rowland Houghton which Instrument being properly applyed to the outside of a Pump Tree, prevents said Pump from freezing tho' scituate in the most bleak Place & sharpest Season.

  36. I remember one instance: returning from the pump I saw one of the men leaning against the barracks, the tears streaming down his cheeks.

  37. In the yard was a pump and every night we took a bath, one of us getting under the nose while the other worked the handle.

  38. Something was wrong with the carburetor, or pump that had broken in it, and I went around to the parts house to get the parts for it.

  39. Meanwhile, 2 pints of O negative blood was administered by pump without response.

  40. So soon as it is restored to its situation, a human stomach pump should be inserted up the rectum, and a full stream of the coldest spring water should be thrown into the bowel for ten minutes.

  41. A quantity fresh from the pump was therefore obtained, and it was thrown up, being allowed to flow back.

  42. By this means he could pump water from a mine, or lift coal.

  43. The second was to make the pump large enough to extract both water and air.

  44. A company was formed to pump up the water, and work was begun.

  45. The simplest thing would be to put in a pumping plant and pump up the river water.

  46. I made a pump and set the men to work to pump out the glacier.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abdomen; aggrandize; amplify; anus; appendix; augment; bleed; bloat; bowels; brain; broach; broaden; build; bulk; carve; catechize; chisel; convert; corkscrew; crescendo; crowbar; cultivate; decant; develop; dilate; distend; draft; drain; draw; duodenum; empty; enlarge; entrails; equipment; examine; exhaust; expand; extend; extract; giblets; gizzard; grow; guts; harvest; heart; hike; huff; increase; inflate; innards; insides; interrogate; interview; intestine; kidney; let; liver; lung; machine; magnify; milk; mill; mine; pincers; pipette; press; process; puff; pulsate; pump; query; question; quiz; raise; rarefy; rear; rectum; refine; shake; siphon; smelt; spleen; stomach; stretch; stuffing; suck; swell; tap; test; ticker; tripe; viscera; vitals; widen; works