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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Downtown businesses operated sump pumps as the subsoil water level rose. ▪ Swapping valves from used tanks to fresh ones, thousands of feet into the sump , was neither easy nor desirable. ▪ The sump was the sole source of water ...
Usage examples of sump.
New Crobuzon were elsewhere, of course: baroque buildings in Nigh Sump or East Gidd or Flag Hill.
They were distracted, it seemed like, and Goody Sump was downright hostile.
Amy Sump is going to tell lies about you and force you to leave, so get out now before her childish imaginings ruin everything.
People like Amy Sump, weak-willed or greedy or dreamy or lazy, but all of them easily used.
Alvin tried to imagine Amy Sump there in the darkness, and even though Measure was right that it would have been a miserable marriage, the fact was that her face was pretty, and in this moment of solitary wakefulness Alvin could imagine that her young body was sweet and warm to the touch, her kiss eager and full of life and hope.
Unlike Makepeace Smith and Hank, Dowser, who were obviously angry and malicious, Amy Sump was absolutely believable.
Webster must have found Amy Sump when he visited in Vigor Church long before I got there.
He discovers Amy Sump as he searches in Vigor Church for any kind of dirt about you.
I do how you hinted to me about how you needed corroboration for that Amy Sump girl, how if you just had some way of proving that Alvin did indeed leave the jail, then she would be believed and no one would believe Alvin.
Nigh Sump a woman died of massive puncture wounds to both sides of her neck, as if she had been caught between the blades of huge serrated scissors.
The acid it had carried pooled beneath it in the dust in an acrid smoking sump, corroding the dead cactacae around it.
Her name was Ethel Sump, and she had seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind sixteen times, seventeen if you counted the time she sat through it four times in one evening and fell asleep midway through the midnight showing, only to wake up on the floor of the deserted theater the next morning to the sound of her dry popcorn belch.
Only two days ago, Ethel Sump had been simply the receptionist for FOES, a group she joined not so much because of her interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, but because belonging to any group made it easier to meet attractive men.
But Ethel Sump got used to that as her interest in flying saucers grew.
Ethel Sump enjoyed training, even training with the rifle Amanda gave her, which at first had frightened her.