lumps

Example Sentences

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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

The suspected cardiac arrhythmia was likely due to a diagnosed condition known as “systemic sarcoidosis,” which can cause lumps in the lungs and other organs, the report found.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

MDLs have been a growing part of the federal civil litigation docket, at astronomical expense to companies that face multiple lawsuits from different jurisdictions that the court system lumps together into one MDL.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

"Some animals have lumps on their chest. It's not pox, but no one will believe me," he says.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

Typically they have an albedo, or reflectiveness, of just 4 percent about the same as a lump of charcoal–and of course these lumps of charcoal are about four billion miles away.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson