lumps

Example Sentences

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The new reporting lumps Nvidia’s gaming chips in with chips for cars, robots, video, and scientific workstations, representing about 8% of first-quarter sales.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

When Willy comes back from a quickly aborted road trip, he drives his car into an abandoned commercial garage, with pillars shedding tiles, gray lumps of detritus piled up, grimy windows letting in dim light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Generally, people with the infection have painful lumps, blisters of swollen skin - but he had no obvious signs, with what looked like burns appearing on his foot only after it had taken hold.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

The candies themselves looked like tiny, dusty potatoes: irregular little lumps of sweet cream with bits of coconut rolled in cinnamon, dusty and warm-smelling, tucked into a plastic tray.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Inside the stainless-steel pot, blue corn powder was amassing into tiny balls that grew into dense lumps.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith