Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lump (up)
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Types of Kitty Litter (and When to Use Them) Types of litter vary based on consistency, clumping ability, and scent.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Apr. 2025 -
Tiny grains of dust scattered across the cosmos can collect in disks around young stars and clump together to eventually form planets.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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But years of cheese consumption had apparently led to tiny bits of cheese getting down into the mechanism and gumming it up something terrible.—
Nate Anderson,
Ars Technica,
22 Mar. 2025
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The maneuver eliminates vehicles stacking up in the middle of the main road at the intersection itself, which can often result in turning vehicles sitting through more than one light cycle and spilling over into the through lanes, gumming up the entire roadway.—
John Aguilar,
The Denver Post,
20 Mar. 2025
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Relations between the mayor and fire chief curdled badly.—
Shawn Hubler,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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But their chemistry begins to curdle when she is terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2025
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The figs would cook until their tough outer skin softened and some began to burst open to gently ooze their seedy pulp, thickening the mixture into a grainy, molasses-brown syrup, while other figs remained whole, their thick stems still attached.—
Claude Barilleaux,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 Apr. 2025
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Formulated with organic amla and rice protein and proven to thicken hair by 11% (per the brand), the volumizing foam will create fuller, all-day voluminous curls.—
Natasha Marsh,
Allure,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Lump (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lump%20%28up%29. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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