How to Use rump in a Sentence
rump
noun- I slipped and fell on my rump.
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The dog’s rump is attached to the front of the bird, and the result trots happily along.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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The rump-covering to come will be Olympian, in its own right.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
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Mitchell, playing his rump off until the end, tried to will a sealed fate to change.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
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The Holkham estate sits in the middle of the north Norfolk coast, a bulging rump of fields and marshes on the North Sea.
—Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
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Was this one of the hens that had pecked my hand or plucked feathers from the pink rump of another?
—Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
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There’s that Nathan Mensah, the 6-10 royal rump pain patrolling the paint.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
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And, to my silly surprise, your rump still hangs out the bottom.
—Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 June 2017
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McVey couldn’t dart her in the optimal spot – the neck – because of the lid, so opted for her rump.
—Karen Chávez, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2022
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Luckily, the script called for the dog to be saved by a small parachute attached to its rump.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2019
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Breaching the surface was the small white rump of a bianchetto truffle.
—Andrew Kornylak, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
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Murphy gave Bassitt a good laugh, too, with the viral video of him getting knocked in the rump by a pitch last week.
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2022
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Bidets are also way cleaner and less rough on the rump than wiping.
—Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2020
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The exception is two yellow patches on the sides of the upper breast and a patch of yellow on the rump.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 12 Apr. 2018
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Those finches with the red bibs and reddish wash over the head along with a bright rose-red rump are house finches.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 2 June 2017
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Dapper gray warbler with red face, black head-band and white rump.
—Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
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One of the crew jerks a lever, releasing the first in a line of 3-month-old calves, standing rump to face in the confines of the metal chute.
—Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
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Then, in the middle of the bald spot, its rump began to glow, washing its hindquarters in pale blue light.
—Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021
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Despite the card’s rump-like rendition, tourists flocked to The Bean on Friday.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
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Q: Is t alk o f imp e aching P r e side n t T rump ... p r em a t u r e ?
—Shaffer Grubb, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2017
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Part of it is now a restaurant that serves hearty dishes like calf’s head, country pâté, and rump steak.
—Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
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The bold white rump patch is both eye catching and provides a sturdy base so the decoys won't blow over.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2020
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The question now is this: Will the rump of Corbyn’s supporters mount a coup attempt on Starmer?
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
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Bull elk antlers consist of a long, sweeping main beam that arches over the bull’s back and toward its rump.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
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Without this city, Ukraine shrivels to a landlocked rump state.
—New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
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Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.
—New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
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That rump of legacy estates is like the polar ice cap – shrinking over time.
—Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
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But that is the inevitable result of giving a rump of party members the final say.
—Boris Johnson, The Economist, 4 July 2019
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As Ackerman demonstrated, these do not amount to a mass base, let alone a rump.
—Micah L. Sifry, New Republic, 2 Feb. 2018
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The rogue rump of the GOP which supports him is persistently trying to derail vital aid to Ukraine.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
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