Hump is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like bulge or hunch. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hump in a sentence
Related words
Hump meaning
- A mound of earth.
- A speed bump or speed hump.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
Synonyms of Hump
Using Hump
- The main meaning on this page is: A mound of earth. | A speed bump or speed hump. | A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- Useful related words include: bulge, hunch over, hunch forward, hunch.
- In the example corpus, hump often appears in combinations such as: the hump, hump day, hump and.
Context around Hump
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hump
- In this selection, "hump" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, active, yards, speed, yards, day and separating stand out and add context to how "hump" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include over the hump and a speed hump is found. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hump" sits close to words such as adage, admirer and aft, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hump
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
My Hump, my hump, my lovely madeleine lumps. (8 words)
In the meantime, however, hump day provides a welcomed midweek break. (11 words)
Can’t say that that change is going to get us over the hump. (14 words)
Despite Abmas accounting for his team’s final 17 points in a mere 2:29, the Mountaineers got over the hump to secure their best win to date this season and avoid being the last Big 12 team to record a league win. (43 words)
She inspired kids to imagine their dream house, dream car, dream date and offered a blank canvas on which to project their fantasies, whether they be President Barbie presiding over a Cabinet meeting or making Ken and Barbie hump each other. (41 words)
Active hump yards Hump yards work by using a small hill over which cars are pushed, before being released down a slope and switched automatically into cuts of cars, ready to be made into outbound trains. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
My Hump, my hump, my lovely madeleine lumps.
Sometimes you can see the hump in the breaking ball, but from Jake today there was no hump,” he said.
Active hump yards Hump yards work by using a small hill over which cars are pushed, before being released down a slope and switched automatically into cuts of cars, ready to be made into outbound trains.
A little salary cap cheating at the tail end of his career to help get him over the hump and finally win a few of those SBs he steered his teams to.
Clinton County continued to battle in the third quarter, but couldn’t get over the hump.
Despite the run, Kanab could never quite get over the hump until the fourth and final quarter.
However, this is only the case when a speed hump is found to exceed legal heights listed above.
In the meantime, however, hump day provides a welcomed midweek break.
It remains to be seen whether this young core’s experience will be able to push them over the hump to a championship.
Leaks declare Apple is creating bigger sensors for its upcoming iPhones, and the transfer from a double to triple-layer digital camera hump all however confirms this.
She inspired kids to imagine their dream house, dream car, dream date and offered a blank canvas on which to project their fantasies, whether they be President Barbie presiding over a Cabinet meeting or making Ken and Barbie hump each other.
Sikkut added that her party is not satisfied with the policy of eliminating the tax hump, but that this had represented a compromise.
Textbook descriptions, which include the presence of purple stretch marks and a hump, are “almost a caricature,” Findling observed.
After not being able to get over the Chiefs hump in 2023, the Baltimore Ravens looked to make a change for the 2024 season.
A season ago, Ravenswood fell behind early against Chapmanville in a Class AA quarterfinal and fought back to recover, but was unable to get over the hump in a season-ending loss.
Can’t say that that change is going to get us over the hump.
Day is hoping that Saturday will mark the day that this senior class will get over the hump and get its first win over Michigan.
Despite Abmas accounting for his team’s final 17 points in a mere 2:29, the Mountaineers got over the hump to secure their best win to date this season and avoid being the last Big 12 team to record a league win.
For the Chargers, the hump separating them from Los Angeles relevance has proven to be a mountain.
Harbaugh began to draw the ire of some fans because Michigan couldn't get over the hump to beat Ohio State, big road games and bowl games.
Common combinations with hump
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hump 46×
- hump day 15×
- hump and 14×
- hump in 9×
- hump on 5×
- hump but 4×
- hump to 3×
- my hump 2×
- hump my 2×
- hump yards 2×