BUM in a Sentence

Learn BUM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for BUM, such as:
1. He was probably bumming his way home.
2. We are bumming along the road nicely.
3. A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
4. He gave us bum directions, but we eventually found the place.
5. My gang were a great bunch for bumming around and raising Cain.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of BUM
bum
 n.  the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
 v.  ask for and get free; be a parasite
Classic Sentence:
1  Pete, here's the one honest-to-God lady in my bum town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Just a bum club that some of us got up in Minneapolis when I was working there.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  He was probably bumming his way home.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  My gang were a great bunch for bumming around and raising Cain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  He gave us bum directions, but we eventually found the place.
2  A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
3  We are bumming along the road nicely.