How to Use cum in a Sentence

cum

noun
  • The boy is dumb and full of cum.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • The galleries were suffused with the tang of iron and old cum.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But even Jo-Ellen couldn’t help but point out to Alicia that that means cum.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 June 2026
  • The unique camping pod houses a functional kitchen-cum-bathroom and roomy double bed.
    — New Atlas, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The space, which was once a closet and then a bedroom, became a multipurpose bathing room-cum-library.
    — Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The classic is an earnest moment or a logistical question getting swept upstream in a bunch of cum jokes.
    — Kate Lavelle, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • Balmain turns its spring 2020 men’s show in Paris into a runway-cum-concert.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The singer stepped out onto the carpet in a custom Marc Jacobs block-and-tackle suit-cum-leotard.
    — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Pattie Gonia is a prolific drag-artist-cum-climate-activist.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 3 June 2026
  • The second room is the dining room-cum-bedroom in front, which includes the bench, two swivel driver's cab seats and a removable dining table.
    — New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Even the cops that harass Lee on the street are in attendance at the memorial–cum–gubernorial campaign stop.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Imagine sinking deep into a warm, leather couch as someone hands you a hazelnut latte in a Brooklyn coffee-shop-cum-listening lounge.
    — Irene Richardson, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • Hence the name, which directly links to the brand’s signature Berenices handbag and nods to the same sculptural lines and suede-cum-supple leather construction.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
  • His metamorphosis into social scientist-cum-sage appears to be complete.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • His metamorphosis into social scientist-cum-sage appears to be complete.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • All-singing, all-dancing American optimism-cum-militarism isn’t really the play’s subject so much as its mode.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Cocktails on the terrace, dinner at the table, drinks afterwards, then – should the host-cum-guest fancy it – a private DJ and a bit of a dance.
    — Lela London, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • This second creation was about pushing further his exploration of sapphire initiated with last year’s Droplet pocket watch-cum-desk clock.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The amount of money these disruptors-cum-media lords will fling around in order to get their paws all over fans’ data will be obscene, and the owners will want to wallow in it like hogs in the yummiest slop.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The actress-cum-musician transitioned seamlessly from host to musical guest, donning an airy green and pink dress and rocking out to the boisterous and energetic track.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 May 2026
  • French club Toulouse’s Dayann Methalie, a versatile left-back-cum-centre-half, is among several players being tracked across Europe.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Stallone earned an Oscar nomination for reprising his signature role in Ryan Coogler’s bracing reboot-cum-spinoff.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • Bigot-cum-governors, legislators, and judges advancing white power.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The backstory The exhilarating start of commercial flight has never quite left this airport terminal-cum-hotel.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Sottovento Coffee Bar and brasserie-cum-lounge Coterie were added as part of the 2023 renovations.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2026
  • The ensemble-cum-chorus, burdened with overblown asylum imagery, is sometimes called upon to inject a circus-like atmosphere, complete with acrobatics.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • His general-store-cum-museum, Maison Courtin, in the town of La Chartre-sur-le-Loir features hats, cars, and medical supplies.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Food and drink Four Seasons has two properties in Istanbul—this, and its sister set on the stretch of the shore lined with former palace-cum-hotels that could be called the Posh-phorus.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Trained by her mother, the Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki and Okinawan artist-cum-fashion designer started her own career while in high school.
    — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Considering the show’s audience, the decision to turn the story of 1066 into a family melodrama-cum-colonial parable starts to make sense.
    — Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025

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