PUMP in a Sentence

Learn PUMP 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.
67 example sentences for PUMP, such as:
1. We couple the pump with the engine.
2. A bicycle pump puts air into the tires.
3. There is something wrong with the pump.
4. The pump sucks air out through this valve.
5. We should pump fund into technological projects.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PUMP
pump
 v.  raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
 v.  operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  He remembered that there was company at the pump.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  I had my mind on the children all the time; I wanted to get them out to one side and pump them a little, and find out who I was.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
4  You might pump at him a week, it wouldn't make no difference.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
5  Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  He rested for a moment against the pump, shading his eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  I paid sixpence more for my dinner, which was a meat pie and a turn at a neighbouring pump; and passed the hour which was allowed for that meal, in walking about the streets.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
9  It swept through her, making her heart pump the blood through her veins in pounding surges.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  Aunt Bessie crept in next day, tried to pump her, tried to prime the pump by again hinting that Kennicott might have his own affairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Espying the mate drawing near as he was toiling at the pump with the rest, the Lakeman affected not to notice him, but unawed, went on with his gay banterings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  I told him nobody wanted to drownd themselves, but if we didn't have rain soon we'd have to pump water for the cattle.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
13  She went to the back, into the pent-house scullery, where the pump was.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  So at last Mr Mellors and Tom Phillips went to the cottage and fetched away most of the furniture and bedding, and unscrewed the handle of the pump, so she was forced to go.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  The pump sucks air out through this valve.
2  A bicycle pump puts air into the tires.
3  At the farm there was an old-fashioned pump for drawing water from a well.
4  There is something wrong with the pump.
5  A pump in the boiler sends hot water round the central heating system.
6  We couple the pump with the engine.
7  She washed her face at the pump in front of the inn.
8  You will need to pump hard for several minutes to fill the tank.
9  We should pump fund into technological projects.
10  Our latest machine can pump a hundred gallons a minute.
11  We manage to pump the whole story out of him little by little.
12  A pump was used to remove water from the old workings.
13  If we can pump all the water out, we can save the ship from sinking.
14  "No one could be comfortable", he said, "at the prospect of continuing to pump out the large amounts of carbon dioxide."
15  And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour -- and even then somebody generally had to go after him.