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Example sentences for "rump"

Lexicographically close words:
rumores; rumors; rumour; rumoured; rumours; rumped; rumple; rumpled; rumpless; rumpling
  1. Plumage blackish; rump and bases of outer tail feathers, as well as tip white.

  2. It is most often known as the Ring-tailed Marlin, owing to a very strong contrast between the black tail, white rump and dark upper parts as the bird flies.

  3. Form like that of the last, but with the head, neck, rump and underparts rusty, and with no white in the wings.

  4. Rump and base of tail reddish-brown; breast crossed by two black bands.

  5. With rage and grief Tydides stung, Scratch'd his rump raw, yet held his tongue; Provok'd by this abusive knight To scratch the place that did not bite.

  6. Note, if you please, the interrogation mark burned into the hair of the red's right rump and the odd angle at which it is placed.

  7. In one of the high-fenced, unroofed pens of a wholesale butcher stood twenty-five or thirty sleek steers, red splotched with white, upon the rump of each the interrogation brand of the Queer Question Ranch.

  8. But the pinto, with skill acquired in growing-up days when he had trained with an Arizona outlaw band, flirted his vari-colored rump out of harm's way.

  9. Here is raw beef from the east rump of a most attenuated anatomy, doubtful as the welcome of an uninvited visitor; sufficient unto the soup is the toughness thereof, no less.

  10. The eye is surrounded by naked skin of a deep red; the back, the wings and the belly are of a dark blue; the rump and tail are of a very bright carmine red; the beak and iris are of the same colour, and the feet are black.

  11. Young differs in having a dull bluish-black forehead, brownish head, back mixed brown and green, rump and eye stripe chestnut red, and the underside greyish green.

  12. The light-coloured patch on the rump is conspicuous when the wings are expanded, but completely concealed when they are closed.

  13. Geigad used to appease the first pangs of hunger with a dry rump of ham; and plenty of hard crust quelled the craving of his stomach.

  14. I do not remember the Great Frode putting his hand to the sinews of birds, or tearing the rump of a cooked fowl with crooked thumb.

  15. But take this gift to thy husband, who loves luxury, whose finger itches, while he turns over the rump and handles the flesh of the bird roasted brown.

  16. After the expulsion of the Rump by Fleetwood on the 13th of October he was chosen by the officers a member of the new administration and commissary-general of the horse.

  17. Desborough himself became an object of ridicule, his regiment even revolted against him, and on the return of the Rump he was ordered to quit London.

  18. He raked a match across his rump and lighted another cigar.

  19. He poised a rein end above his horse's rump and said, "I'm m-mad.

  20. The life of the Rump was temporarily prolonged, however, by the popularity of its legislation against the Dutch, at this time the rivals of England on the seas and in the colonies.

  21. They disarmed him and ordered him to climb to the rump of one of the horses, and then the two who had been detailed to guard him turned and rode back toward the South, while the others continued their pursuit of Abdul Kamak.

  22. Korak gave an exclamation of astonishment and approval as Numa landed upon the pony's rump and at the same instant the girl swung free of her mount to the branches of a tree above her.

  23. The soldiers quarrelled amongst themselves, and the officers, finding themselves helpless, restored the Rump a second time.

  24. Monk was ordered by the Rump to suppress the resistance of the City.

  25. Keeping his ears open, he soon convinced himself that the Rump was detested by all parties, and, on the morning of the 16th, declared for a free Parliament.

  26. In disgust at the humours of the Rump and the army, he had done everything in his power to hasten the Restoration, and had soon shown hostility to Clarendon and to the persecuting laws of the Cavalier Parliament.

  27. The Rump Parliament was a remnant of the Long Parliament.

  28. Portugal onions and sauce as directed for stewed rump of beef à la Portugaise (No.

  29. Prepare and stew the rump of beef as before, and prepare the following sauce: put two tablespoonfuls of chopped onions in a stewpan, with six do.

  30. Prepare and braise the veal as before, garnish and sauce as for stewed rump of beef à la Macédoine de légumes (No.

  31. Roast the saddle in vegetables as in the last, glaze and salamander, dress on your dish with a border of mashed potatoes round, upon which dress your vegetables prepared as for stewed rump of beef à la Flamande (No.

  32. Take two pounds of rump steak, chop it fine, season well with spice, a piece of onion, or eschalot, and butter.

  33. The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver, 9:20.

  34. They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the entrails: 7:4.

  35. The most detestable thing about this interior Ratisbon diet of man is, that Virtue sits therein with ten seats and one voice, but the Devil with one rump and seven votes.

  36. He kept close to the tail of the whole corps, which was still trailing along the street, while half the rump was already in the palace.

  37. It has no white in the wings and tail, and its rump is red instead of being white.

  38. The house-swallow has the rump glossy black, but it displays a good deal of red about the head and neck.

  39. A rusty-brown bird (the rusty hue being most pronounced in the rump and tail) with a white throat.

  40. The lower back and rump are white, but these are scarcely visible except during flight or when the bird is preening its feathers.

  41. The back is chestnut red and the rump white.

  42. This is distinguishable from the foregoing species by its smaller size, and in having the rump velvety black instead of crimson.

  43. Female greyish brown; beneath paler, tinged with yellowish olive on the rump and throat.

  44. Above and below deep black: whole of back except the rump and scapularies chestnut; bill and feet black; under wing-coverts and wings below black: whole length 5.

  45. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it.

  46. This day the Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump against the House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out without any qualification.

  47. Rump Parliament was so hated and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any Parliament rumps and kidneys?

  48. Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward himself, or from the Rump Parliament.

  49. I’ll lay you a rump and dozen,” exclaimed Beresford, “on the matter!

  50. The buckler on the rump has a border, the mosaic work of which is similar to that of the moveable bands, and the rest consists of pieces like those of the bucklers of the shoulders.

  51. But the cinquincon has but one buckler, and that on his shoulder, the rump being covered with moveable bands, like those of the cuirass of the body.

  52. The moveable bands are also formed of large pieces, almost square; those which compose the buckler on the rump are like those on the shoulder.

  53. A pause of ten minutes ensued, and His Grace rested upon his knife and fork: he was tarrying for a steak from the middle of the rump of beef, where lurks a fifth essence, the perfect ideal of tenderness and flavour.

  54. There's a fallen tree with its rump stuck ashore!


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afterglow; balance; behind; bottom; breast; breech; bum; butt; buttocks; chaff; chuck; clod; croup; crupper; debris; detritus; end; filings; flank; fossil; fundament; hip; husk; insult; knuckle; leavings; leftover; loin; paring; plate; posterior; rack; rag; rear; refuse; relics; remains; remnant; residue; rest; rib; roach; roast; round; rubbish; ruin; rump; saddle; sawdust; scouring; scrap; seat; shadow; shank; shaving; shoulder; sirloin; stern; straw; stubble; stump; survival; sweepings; tail; tenderloin; trace; vestige; waste


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rump and upper tail; rump white