pumping
Example Sentences
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The current price run-up is pumping tax revenues into communities stretching from Alaska to North Dakota to the small towns speckling West Texas and New Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
This gives the heart a bigger job of pumping it around the body and it copes by dialling up the blood pressure - a bit like cranking the tap on a garden hose pipe.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
It is now pumping 50,000 barrels a day of crude into the state.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
“He was like, ‘Loved watching you play, but you played for the wrong jersey,’ because he’s pumping up Georgia.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
