Sentence examples for pump from inspiring English sources

The word "pump" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean "to cause to move up and down or from side to side by action of a piston, plunger, or similar device". For example: "He pumped the gas pedal to accelerate the car".

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pump

noun

A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.

  • This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.

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The closer a residence was to the water pump in Broad Street (now called Broadwick Street), the greater the number of deaths – with a few telling exceptions coming from properties that had their own water sources.

Crucially, Snow examined that pump water expecting to see organic contamination.

When the energy supply to the heart is impaired, it struggles to pump blood to all the organs, and then these malfunction.

The country cannot afford to pay back the billions of euros it had to borrow from the IMF and the European central bank to keep public services running and pump cash into the toxic banking system.

Over the past two years in the US, concerned citizens have been galvanised to march, rally, campaign and get arrested to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – a project to pump a reported 830,000 tonnes of one of the world's dirtiest fossil fuels from Canada to Texas.

Cameron, still displaying signs of residual pump, continued his absurd quest to turn "stubby pencil" into his "Ooh Betty", while reluctantly hopping about on the stage like a circus bear on an electrified plate.

"In comparison, net spending on utilities and groceries is growing more slowly than consumer spending overall, a reflection of falling fuel prices at the pump and the grocery sector's intense price competitions".

"For 10 years I worked with the pump," Ismael tells me.

But prison and detention privatization, the underlying factor in the ongoing humanitarian tragedy that is immigration policy, presents another obstacle to GOP hopefuls – even as the prison industry itself continues to pump money into politics and wring profit out of the ongoing crisis at the border.

Will we have a policy that charges polluters for the waste emissions they pump into the air or, as is the wont of the Abbott Government, a policy that asks taxpayers to pay for polluters to cut their emissions?

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'Fortunately,' quips the journo, 'I had a pump-action shotgun with me and mowed him down there and then.

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