Sentence examples for bumping from high-quality English sources.

• The recent bumping of the Hon.

• It brings us bumping down to earth.

• A private education requires bumping that monthly savings up to about $1,126.

• The next evening, Arthur is sorting through papers and letters when the bumping starts again.

• She went on, “While everybody else was bumping whatever, I was bumping Rascal Flatts.

• Bumping 5% of the vote your way is one thing; bumping four times that is quite another.

• The number of new cases also fell from 4,805 on Saturday to 4,316 on Sunday, bumping up the total caseload to 128,948.

• The English Garden (Englischer Garten) is bigger than Central Park, with plenty of room to stretch out without bumping elbows.

Use bumping in a sentence.

• They do what is called glancing, which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction.

• Within days, students were complaining that they couldn’t get coronavirus tests or were bumping into people who were supposed to be in isolation.

• It is generated by feedback from the muscles and joints and helps with sitting squarely on a chair, and moving around without bumping into people or objects.

• A strange kind of political theater, never visited upon European Union summits before, marked the meeting — with leaders donning masks and bumping elbows to greet.

• Since then, kids of all ages — and plenty of adults — have reveled in the thrill of driving without a license and bumping into family and friends without fear of recourse.

• “The last thing we need is some unintended incident that leads to unintended consequences, very severe consequences, whether it’s a fishing boat bumping into a navy vessel and someone drowning,” he said.

• Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking signs of past life,” the flight controller, Swati Mohan, announced at mission control to back-slapping, fist-bumping colleagues wearing masks against the coronavirus.

• "There is something about the ambience - the lights, the smell of chestnuts in the street, we're wrapped up and glowing, maybe we're bumping into people we know, and we've got longer to stop and chat - that enhances the shopping experience," she says.

bumping sentence examples

• Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to Giethoorn in the eastern Netherlands each year, attracted by its network of canals, but many of them have trouble handling their hire boats and end up bumping into the bridges, the regional broadcaster RTV Oost reports.

• On airplanes, it's hard enough to keep from bumping knees with the person in the next seat — let alone follow the Centers for Disease Control's guidelines for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, which are to stay at least six feet away from others.

• Bumping down the washboard road Ennis passed the country cemetery fenced with sagging sheep wire, a tiny fenced square on the welling prairie, a few graves bright with plastic flowers, and didn’t want to know Jack was going in there, to be buried on the grieving plain.

• Although American Airlines also blocks some seats on flights, including middle seats and those adjacent to flight-attendant jump seats, the airline will assign those seats if the flight is nearing capacity, rather than bumping passengers, according to an internal document seen by Business Insider.