The word "clumps" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group or mass of something that has been clumped together, such as a mass of hair or mud. For example, "He ran his fingers through his thick clumps of hair."
With a high proportion of butter in the mix, the crumble should quickly come together in small clumps.
Moving it to different clumps of rock and sand produced the same result.
Soldiers emerge in clumps from the rec room, hoping the Jinglebird has brought them mail from home.
She was sexually assaulted – hence the pseudonym – as well as beaten and slashed with a razor; she lost clumps of hair and a tooth.
Many asteroids are simply clumps of rock held loosely together by gravity.
FROM the air, Bangladesh looks less like a country than one vast lake, dotted with thousands of tiny islets, clumps of trees and houses.
When these drugs are crushed and mixed with liquids, they often form clumps inside blood vessels.
By carefully measuring the rate at which proteasomes laboured, she found a clear correlation: as the clumps of prions in the sample got bigger, the proteasomes slowed down.
There were no signs to guide visitors between the venues and clumps of hapless, non-resident nuit blanchers could be seen on street corners huddled around maps using iPhones as torches.
Edison Liu, executive director of the Genome Institute of Singapore, likens this to a "Star Trek-ian" scan of the body, in which doctors may be able to see clumps of deregulated growth containing as few as ten cells.
Fortunately, light from all the galaxies in a given region of the sky passes by the same clumps of matter on the way to Earth.
