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• Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
• a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
• The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
• Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
• Don't just sit there like a lump.
• He's taken his lumps over the years.
• Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision.
• People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.
• Pellegrini’s decision to operate with both Edin Dzeko and Agüero in attack certainly looks misjudged bearing in mind that the first way to stop Barcelona is usually to try to crowd midfield and restrict space. Yet it would be wrong to lump all the blame on the manager’s tactics.
• His wife, discovering a lump, still a pretty young woman in her thirty-seventh year, his best and closest friend. He’d supported her as best he could after the surgery, but then came another lump, another surgery, medical treatment, and the downhill slide, always having to be strong for her until the end.
• A cottager and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every day. They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed it. Having done so, they found to their surprise that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens. The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.
• I use to have two lumps of sugar with my tea.
• This porridge has lumps in it.
• To lump is to treat as a single unit, to group together.