Sentence examples for like a pump from inspiring English sources

These newest machines, the company promises, "work less like a pump and more like a baby".

The tree acted like a pump, helping to improve the drainage.

My friend raised and lowered the animal's foreleg, like a pump, pushing blood through the hole in throat and out andinto a bucket, where it then coagulated instantly.

Meanwhile, Medela, manufacturer of a popular breast pump, offers its newest machine, which it says will "work less like a pump and more like a baby".

In the same way as trees and vegetation on land, shelf seas can suck out CO2 from the atmosphere like a pump.

Take lawns for example: years of continual mowing and disposal of the grass clippings essentially mimics that of agriculture – acting like a pump on a conveyor belt to suck up the sulphur.

By "we" I mean "everyone alive today": we seem to think, most of us, that selfies are a milestone in culture; that developing the technology to take and share them was revolutionary, and that the widespread taking and sharing of selfies is part of the vital blood that pumps throughout society like a heartbeat, pump pump pump, pump, pump pump pump.

Manhattan looked like a heart pumping blood — or a blocked heart.

The collocated gas-fired unit and PtG facility behave like a pump-storage unit while using the natural gas infrastructure as reservoir, which can help reduce variations of electrical loads and wind generations.

After each wave get new weapons, like a pump-action shotgun where you actually line up your hands to aim down the iron sights, and a bow and arrow you nock, pull back, and release to fire.

These processes were corresponding to heart's function of working like a pumping machine to provide the power needed for life.