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sugar lump
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Guy immediately shovelled another sugar lump between its wet, smelly lips.
▪ If the fly landed on your sugar lump you got the girl.
▪ There might be a sugar lump in a minute, but sometimes, when Henry was upset, there were no treats.

Usage examples of "sugar lump".

On the horizon the Face of the Sugar Lump lay naked, as still and flat as a sea of light&mdash.

The centre of gravity of the Sugar Lump is somewhere beneath the centre of the plane.

The sugar lump disappeared through a crack in a nearby wall with a final jerk.

She idly watched a team of city ants, who had lived under the flagstones of the University for so long that the high levels of background magic had permanently altered their genes, anthandling a damp sugar lump down from the bowl on to a tiny trolley.

The sugar lump passed under his chair on matchstick rollers, the squeaking of the slavedriver ants just at the edge of hearing.

He poured himself tea, put a sugar lump in his teeth, and tried to swallow.

A sugar lump rose into the air, then disappeared as someone ate it.

Still others ascribed it to the tremendous consumption of tea, which in those days was often drunk by sucking it through a sugar lump.