Example Sentences

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She cries foul on seemingly every play in which she is bumped, or nudged, or experiences any of the contact that is completely normal in the most physical basketball league on the planet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

During a trip to Benidorm in the summer of 2015, Mellado bumped into an eight-year-old Lopez playing football with her cousins on the beach.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

He said he’d even used it to get bumped up a class at the airport.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Keys and Mulder said in their earlier study that reinsurance -- insurers themselves buying protection against risk -- has bumped up premiums as firms experienced a "climate epiphany."

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

He trotted over to her, breath whooshing from his big nostrils, and bumped his nose into her hard enough to nearly send her to the ground.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack