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Example sentences for "pumped"

Lexicographically close words:
pumila; pummel; pummelled; pummelling; pump; pumping; pumpkin; pumpkins; pumps; pun
  1. The cold water tap over the stone sink could supply cold water from a cistern in the basement or hand-pumped to a roof cistern through wooden pipes at very low pressure at stated hours for a fee.

  2. Water pumped from the Thames into underground pipes was thus distributed to householders three times a week.

  3. There he built a waterwheel from which he pumped water to residents who lived beside the bridge.

  4. Blood also flowed from the body to the right side of the heart, from which it was pumped to the lungs.

  5. He found that the blood flowed from the lungs to the left side of the heart, and from thence was pumped out to the body.

  6. It pumped three times as fast as Newcomen's engine.

  7. So the condensed steam was pumped back into the boiler and it circulated continuously, thus obviating the need for constant resupply of water.

  8. You're as good a sailor as we are, I suppose, and ye must know that a ship that needs to be pumped out every four hours ain't seaworthy.

  9. This wire screen, stretched around rollers, travels almost horizontally away from a broad shelf from which it receives a stream of stuff pumped onto the latter from the tank before mentioned.

  10. The air we had so industriously pumped in, rushed out at the rent.

  11. The bellows pumped air underneath, thus causing undulation after undulation, making what we though was a most realistic semblance of the ocean in active operation.

  12. For this purpose the carbonic anhydride is pumped by means of a force-pump into a closed vessel containing the liquid, and then bottled off, taking special means to ensure rapid and air-tight corking.

  13. The gas is pumped into the iron chamber A, where it is liquefied.

  14. The nitrogen is then pumped out of the tube and it is weighed again.

  15. The air is first pumped out of this vessel, so that when the stopcock C is opened, it becomes filled with detonating gas.

  16. The apparatus in which the liquid is distilled is connected with a large globe from which the air is pumped out; the liquid is heated, and the receiver cooled.

  17. The air is first pumped out of it, and it is weighed empty.

  18. When she had pumped that full--and how her arms ached!

  19. Like the rest of the farm homes, the only available water supply seemed to be the pump in the yard, and Betty pumped vigorously, letting a stream run out before she filled the teakettle.

  20. She thought it likely that no water had been pumped for several days.

  21. Betty went in to get her middy blouse, and Bob pumped pail after pail of water and carried it to the barn.

  22. The patient hears voices shouting foul abuse at him; all his thoughts are read and repeated aloud; electric shocks are sent through him at night; gases are pumped into his room.

  23. Poisonous gases are pumped into the room.

  24. The Golden Age was afterward partially repaired at Quicara, pumped out, and steamed to Panama, when, after further repairs, she resumed her place in the line.

  25. Also tailings pits should be made, in which the tailings and slimes are allowed to settle, and the cleared water is pumped back to be again used.

  26. Water is then pumped into a strong receptacle containing the material for treatment and powerful hydraulic pressure is applied.

  27. Christ's mercy to a world does not come like water in a well that has to be pumped up, by our petitions, by our search, but like water in some fountain, rising sparkling into the sunlight by its own inward impulse.

  28. Yes," answered the beetle, calmly, "you have pumped from it all the gold my people could find.

  29. With a desire to reward you for your kindness the beetle took from its lawful possessors the money you pumped from the well.

  30. They pumped a stream of water 40 inches in diameter.

  31. Hence it is necessary to raise the temperature of the water in the colander to the temperature of the vapours to be condensed: therefore, I cause the lukewarm water, pumped from the reservoir E, to circulate in the chamber C.

  32. It is next turned and levelled with shovels; after which more water is pumped in, and the operation is repeated.

  33. The contents are then stirred up, and pumped off into 3 stone cisterns, 7 feet square and 4 feet deep; as much water being added, with agitation, as will fill the cisterns to the brim.

  34. When the liquor has passed through the first filter, it must be pumped upon the second; or the filters being placed in a terrace form, the liquor from the first may flow down upon the second, and thus in succession.

  35. As long as the liquor passes through turbid, it is pumped back into the receiver.

  36. The instant the copper is emptied, the first wort is let down from the pan into the copper, and the second wort is pumped up from the under-back into the upper pan.

  37. The water is so scanty in this mine that it is pumped up by a six-horse steam-engine.

  38. This weak fluid may be pumped back into the alembic, as the preliminary charge of a fresh operation.

  39. After the green vitriol has concreted, the liquor should be pumped back into the evaporating pan, and again brought to the density of 1.

  40. When all this liquor is once collected, it is pumped through a bag for retaining the impurities, into the boiler, and heated to ebullition.

  41. The weak brine is pumped into an immense cistern on the top of a tower, and is thence allowed to flow down the surface of bundles of thorns built up in regular walls, between parallel wooden frames.

  42. Plenty of oil was put on the bearings, the water tank was refilled from a convenient spring and the tires pumped up.

  43. The new tire was pumped up and the engine started.

  44. After breakfast the tires were pumped up, the baggage was packed into the auto and preparations made for the start.

  45. The suit-cases had been strapped to the machine, tires were pumped up, there was plenty of water and gasolene in the tanks, the batteries were renewed, and every bit of machinery had been gone over carefully.

  46. They got away into the big trees once more, to Jock's disappointment but greatly to my relief; for I was quite pumped from the romp and laughter.

  47. The ship had not been pumped for eight months, but there was no water and not much ice in the bilges.

  48. The 'Aurora' was quite helpless in the grip of the ice, and after the engine-room bilges had been thawed and pumped out the boilers were blown down.

  49. The next day they again pumped away, and had entirely freed the vessel by noon.

  50. They pumped and pumped away till they were weary, and then went back into the cabin to lie down awhile.

  51. Many submarines are also fitted with bow and stern trimming-tanks, into which water can be pumped in such a manner as to correct any tendency of the vessel to float too high or low at either extremity.

  52. The well may prove to be a gusher and pour out hundreds of thousands of gallons a day; or the oil may refuse to rise to the surface and have to be pumped out even at the first.

  53. Cold water is pumped over these pipes, the vapor turns into a liquid again, and we have kerosene oil.

  54. The crude oil is pumped into boilers holding six hundred barrels or more.

  55. Then they pumped out what water was already in and did their work with no more trouble.

  56. Then it is allowed to flow into smaller basins, while more water is pumped into the reservoir.

  57. The ship having entered, the gates are closed, and the water pumped out, allowing the vessel to settle down gradually upon a row of keel blocks, running up the centre line of the dock.

  58. From the stuff-chest the mixture is pumped into what is known as the "mixing" or "regulating" box.

  59. If a paper-mill is operated in connection with the pulp-mill, the wood pulp is not necessarily rolled out in sheets, but is pumped directly from the tanks to the beaters.


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