lump
Example Sentences
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Her lump of coal “spoke of guilt and remorse . . . ‘I have become the greatest enemy of your time.’”
Those books sometimes get written off just because they were so insanely popular and then triggered this huge wave of dystopian fiction, so everything tends to get lumped together.
From Salon
Back payments would be spread among 12 monthly installments beginning in July, rather than in a lump sum, according to a memo sent to suppliers on Valentine’s Day.
The bitterness was so sharp, I might as well have been sucking on a lump of coal.
From Literature
The crab cakes were our best bite, filled with loads of lump crab meat served with a horseradish cream sauce.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
