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 • Aug. 1, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2023

Hardware stores are also useful: “You can make a fully functioning asthma nebulizer with a bicycle pump, tubing, some adapters and filters,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2014

Drawing on his online network of fellow weapons-spotters and translators, Higgins established that it was in fact a bicycle pump.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013

“No, it’s not, it’s like a bicycle pump with a red handle...”

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass