lumpy
Example Sentences
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Even before the pandemic, bottled water had overtaken External link soda as the nation’s most popular beverage by volume after years External link of decline for carbonated soft drinks—a category where demand remains lumpy.
From Barron's
Aircraft orders are lumpy from month to month and the planes take a few years to build.
From MarketWatch
Camille tosses around, trying to get comfortable, but the mattress is lumpy.
From Literature
Large contracts with utilities also tend “to be kind of lumpy in nature,” making it hard to predict quarter by quarter, Ashraf said.
Every time I do, I think of Jo charging into that doomed kitchen with “perfect faith in her own powers” and emerging with blackened bread and lumpy blancmange.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
