Sentence examples for bump us from inspiring English sources

"The referees are going to let them be physical and let them bump us and hit us," Ronzone said.

"The week of the Open should bump us up to 85percentt for this June," he said.

But that's part of Newman's nonconformist charm, and (I suspect) his intention: awkwardness and pensiveness are more likely to bump us out of our complacency – to engage our brains, indeed – than conventional comic timing and delivery.

"There are occasions when the grocer has to bump us out because he doesn't want to run ads for Pepsi, us and his store brand all in the same week," Mr. Kalil said.

If we were lucky, he explained, they were chasing us out of the county, and a few miles down the road they would bump us several more times, shout more threats, then turn around.

That will hopefully bump us up a couple of places in the world rankings," he said.

Or, "They bumped us because we're flying on a $539 fare".

Boris was proud we were the fifth largest economy, he went on, apparently unaware that Events had already bumped us down to number six.

We'd still be No. 1 and No. 2, except that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is out and it bumped us.

And at the end of day two, when we were already quietly confident about being fully funded within the month, something amazing happened: JK Rowling pledged to be a patron, and bumped us up to two-thirds funded.

"We did better in the dark with the lights on us, but by that time everybody realized, 'Oh my God, this is the biggest thing in the world.' So all these super big groups like Blood, Sweat and Tears helicoptered in and kept bumping us".