bicycle pump

Example Sentences

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But when air sinks it is heated due to compression, like how a bicycle pump gets hot because the air is being squeezed into a smaller space.

From Los Angeles Times

He applies a bicycle pump to the wheels and is off, weaving through traffic of motorcycles and trucks.

From Seattle Times

The 25-year-old whose husband used a bicycle pump to push air into her uterus, with fatal consequences.

From Los Angeles Times

And British industry did answer the call, even as the experts cautioned that these are sophisticated medical devices, not bicycle pumps.

From Washington Post

While digging up the camp, police had found an improvised weapon, a handmade pipe gun, about the size and shape of a bicycle pump, that was shallowly buried near one of his storage bins.

From The Guardian