How to Use rump in a Sentence

rump

noun

• I slipped and fell on my rump.
• 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
• The rump-covering to come will be Olympian, in its own right.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Was this one of the hens that had pecked my hand or plucked feathers from the pink rump of another?
  — Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
• There’s that Nathan Mensah, the 6-10 royal rump pain patrolling the paint.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• And, to my silly surprise, your rump still hangs out the bottom.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• Breaching the surface was the small white rump of a bianchetto truffle.
  — Andrew Kornylak, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• 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
• Bidets are also way cleaner and less rough on the rump than wiping.
  — Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Dapper gray warbler with red face, black head-band and white rump.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Despite the card’s rump-like rendition, tourists flocked to The Bean on Friday.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Without this city, Ukraine shrivels to a landlocked rump state.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• That rump of legacy estates is like the polar ice cap – shrinking over time.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• But that is the inevitable result of giving a rump of party members the final say.
  — Boris Johnson, The Economist, 4 July 2019
• As Ackerman demonstrated, these do not amount to a mass base, let alone a rump.
  — Micah L. Sifry, New Republic, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024