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lump - use in sentences
Converse of object
- leaveneth: Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Adjective modifier
- bony: Bunions are bony lumps that develop on the side of the foot at the base of the big toe.
- cancerous: Izzie, meanwhile, is having trouble with her patient, who needs a biopsy on a potentially cancerous testicular lump.
- shapeless: It was nothing more than a large, shapeless lump of glass, dark and smoky.
- benign: The hills in question are always fairly benign lumps without any sharp edges to fall off in the dark.
Modifies a noun
- sum: The simplest is a lump sum payment of the value of the policy.
- hammer: Thankfully it was thin enough to yield to the lump hammer.
- payment: The simplest is a lump sum payment of the value of the policy.
- payout: With the lump sum payout she had received together with personal savings, Gisella decided to attend Westminster College and retrain as a designer.
- compensation: Once a lump sum compensation payment has been received, it may affect your client's entitlements to any income-based benefits.
Noun used with modifier
- commencement: Paragraph 23 amends the overall ceiling on an individual's total pension commencement lump sums of 25 % of the standard lifetime allowance.
- one-off: We asked that the conditions be leveled up and sought a one-off lump sum payment.
- breast: Analgesia by wound infiltration after surgical excision of breast lumps.
Preposition: in
- testicle: Testicular cancer normally presents itself as a lump in the testicle.
- throat: You have a lump in the throat, your heart is in your mouth, only fear, you just want to run off.
Preposition: of
- lard: The rest of the suit required a golf ball size lump of lard to get into!
- clay: On the front of the hat was stuck a lump of clay, which held a tallow candle.
- granite: For a moment, that giant lump of granite steals the wind.
- coal: What grand memories of chopping the huge lumps of coal with a butcher's knife.
- sandstone: The experiment was repeated with a lump of sandstone.
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