Example Sentences

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In oil and gas, it has pledged to prioritise less carbon-intensive projects which will be pumping for a shorter time.

From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2022

Others will be pumping more groundwater to make up for the cuts, which raises additional questions about sustainability because groundwater supplies are not unlimited.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2021

“Your adrenaline will be pumping, heart pounding, and you may feel strange. But don’t worry — you can do this!”

From Washington Post • May 13, 2020

“I would say that doesn't go away. So I know that once I get inside the ropes, the adrenalin will be pumping a little extra.”

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

And all the while the alternations in the primary coil will be pumping currents, as it were, round and round the ring of molten iron.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.