Example Sentences

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Flood alerts are in place on the north Cornwall coast from The Rumps to Hartland Point, excluding Bude.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

How is it, Planchet, that an intelligent man like you should take any heed of a set of brawlers who call themselves Rumps and Barebones.

From Ten Years Later by Dumas père, Alexandre

Rumps and edgebones of beef when bruised, should not be purchased.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Rumps and edgebones of beef are often bruised by the blows which the drovers give the beasts, and the part that has been struck always taints; these joints therefore when bruised should not be purchased.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

One of the little Rumps has been left on the other side of the canal!

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George