rump

Example Sentences

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He had just separated the new Muslim state of Pakistan from the now-independent rump of largely Hindu India.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Water and other specialties stay behind in the rump DuPont.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025

But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines, he’s instantly more compelling than the sight of ParTeb shaking his rump.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

HTS has roots in al-Qaeda, though it broke with the group in 2016 and at times has fought its rump loyalists.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024

She had arranged three stools in a row, while she herself jammed her rump into an ancient baby’s high chair—a bohemian touch that gave her a tennis umpire’s advantage of height.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan