How to Use hump in a Sentence
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The name comes from the bony hump along its back.
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Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Some teams rely on them to get over the hump more than others.
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Matt Eppers,
USA TODAY,
14 Apr. 2021
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But Democrats weren’t quite able to get over the hump after that.
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2022
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This hump can produce a false reading.
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Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2026
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All past champions have had to get over that hump, just go back over the years.
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Jeremy Cluff,
The Arizona Republic,
10 May 2023
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The goal is still the same, to get back to the Finals and get over that hump.
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Gary Washburn,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 Dec. 2022
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Like, what can the team do to get over that hump and finally make it to the big game?
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James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Nov. 2025
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There was an adobe hump against the wall with no apparent purpose.
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Kelsey Mulvey,
House Beautiful,
22 Mar. 2023
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For the Sixers, that hump has been the Celtics, which have owned them.
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Jeremy Cluff,
The Arizona Republic,
10 May 2023
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Getting over that hump showed on his face afterward.
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Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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And that was a huge lesson, and that’s what really kind of got me over the hump.
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Mark Inabinett | [email protected],
al,
18 July 2021
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The steep curve that the wind hits is called the slip face, and the back hump of the deposit is called the stoss side.
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Amelia Arvesen,
Outside Online,
29 Jan. 2023
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Troll nightcrawler harness rigs 20 to 30 feet deep along flats, points and humps.
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Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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Homes are not facing the areas where the speed humps will be located.
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Chandra Fleming,
Detroit Free Press,
12 May 2023
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Is there pressure on him to help the Packers get over the playoff hump?
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Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Was that to build tension, or did that involve a hump production had to get over?
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Marcus Jones,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2022
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Around the back, all the connections are built into a central hump.
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Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
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This one gets vinyl stripes that run along the side of the power hump on the hood and then along the doors and rear fenders.
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Sam Abuelsamid,
Forbes,
12 Nov. 2021
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But the rounded hump and more advanced and tactile scroll wheel are worth the extra girth.
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Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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The space between the seats usually has an awkward hump, though.
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Peter Valdes-Dapena,
CNN,
30 Sep. 2023
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The Rockets hung around for much of the fourth quarter but could never get over the hump.
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oregonlive,
28 Jan. 2022
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The next life of polypropylene can be clothing fibers, food containers, and speed humps.
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Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
16 May 2023
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Rocky points, humps, and bluffs are all great areas to target winter bass with a Ned rig.
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Shaye Baker,
Field & Stream,
24 Apr. 2023
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The local cattle, called zebu, which sport a large hump, were said to be dropping dead of thirst.
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Dyan MacHan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 July 2022
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The road consisted of deep parallel ruts with a grassy hump in the middle.
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John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2023
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Marian, with 20 turnovers in the game, couldn’t get over the hump in the fourth quarter.
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Brad Emons,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Jan. 2022
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Aneesa can't get past the first hump obstacle while Big T clears the first leg of the course.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
25 Mar. 2021
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The only water on a hump was the amount our standard-issue canteens could hold.
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Charlie Sheen,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The Vipers have lost in the first round of the playoffs each of the past four seasons and seek to get over that hump.
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Ian Garcia,
The Arizona Republic,
21 Jan. 2022
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At the back of the trunk there's a hump that presumably encloses some of the battery pack.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
Ars Technica,
13 Sep. 2022
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He was humped over, digging at something in the leaf carpet.
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Charles Elliott,
Outdoor Life,
21 Aug. 2025
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No more humping every female dog anymore.
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Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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All of the animals skidded on the slick ice, but the frantic cow made it to the bank, humped her way to the top, and hooked her front legs over.
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Frank Glaser,
Outdoor Life,
1 Apr. 2026
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For 60 years, Marshall amplifiers have been humped on and off stages and carted all over the world.
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Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Contractors then humped it east around Orange Lake to Jacksonville, an eighty-mile slog.
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Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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Another ewok then proceeded to moonwalk on the Today plaza before grabbing Roker’s leg and humping it.
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Rachel McRady,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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That territory has a bounty of middle-age men humping stools and occasionally noticing that death eventually comes for us all.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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She and her son are seen posing in front of a mirror together, before Spears begins speaking in an English accent and seemingly simulating a humping motion while wearing tight shorts and a top that exposes her midsection.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Compounding the cacophony is a Jonny Greenwood score that veers between manic percolation—imagine a xylophone humping a coffeepot—and grandly operatic surges of synth.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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The contrast between the Vietnamese who humped through rice paddies documenting their own country’s existentialist struggle, and the foreigners who flew around on helicopters and were given US military ranks adds emotional depth and historical nuance.
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Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
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Iain Stirling narrates the daily dramas of Peacock’s reality hit, cranking out reliably hilarious commentary about contestants’ back tattoos, dry-humping challenges and mosquitoes that interrupt intimate moments.
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Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
24 Aug. 2025
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