pump

Example Sentences

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Restaurants are trying to lure back customers after a challenging 2025, where traffic fell and chains pumped out discounts to try to bring penny-pinching consumers back.

From The Wall Street Journal

But there’s a biological reason: Sea turtles are cold-blooded, and don’t heal as fast as creatures with warm blood pumping through their veins.

From Los Angeles Times

The government's Warm Homes Plan promises £15bn to help UK households pay for green technologies such as heat pumps, as part of its efforts to drive down energy bills and cut planet warming emissions.

From BBC

Babs pumps her arms as she walks, going so fast she’s almost running.

From Literature

The group went in twos, sniffing the air that was pumped through the arch.

From Literature