How to Use pumped in a Sentence

pumped

adjective
  • And he was pumped and proud of that moment and deservedly so.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This the space where fists are pumped and family members are hugged.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • And a parent who isn't so pumped with her child's romantic choice.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2018
  • No one really knows for sure, but fans were super pumped to see how something like this would shake out.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
  • If your chatter is positive and keeps you pumped, own it and use it to your advantage.
    — Nicole Lipkin, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • This time, soldiers placed a hose in Ealdama’s mouth and pumped water into him.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In fact, Lindell seemed pretty pumped about it while reacting on the livestream.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Although new pumped hydro plants are still being built, the technology has some big drawbacks.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Tulane's penalty numbers are down this year, but coach Willie Fritz is not too pumped up about the improvement.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Stroud double-pumped while Harrison separated, then fired a strike into the back of the end zone for the touchdown.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Blake's pretty pumped to have someone who is a real entertainer with lots of stage presence on Team Blake.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Google was pretty pumped and brought out Mark Ronson and Selena Gomez to demo it.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 1 Oct. 2020
  • That includes pumped hydro projects in which hydroelectric facilities pump water from one reservoir up to another and then release it.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Good Morning America's Robin Roberts has something exciting up her sleeve — and fans are super pumped for it.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2021
  • Super pumped for this opportunity to bounce back and have a great season with an incredible organization.
    — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2021
  • Football fanatics couldn’t have been more pumped for the first high school football playoff game in two years Friday night at Ventura College.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Anfernee, Damien, Dont’a, Barmore, all the Bama guys, super excited, super pumped for me.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 3 May 2022
  • Kirk Herbstreit predicted the Longhorns will come out pumped, but eventually the Alabama talent will wear down Texas.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Jazz guard Mike Conley said Whiteside gets more pumped to play Sacramento than probably any other team because of his prior history there.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At the time, Prolacta charged as much as $45 an ounce for a liquid concentrate that arrived at a hospital frozen until ready to be used, at which time a mother’s own pumped breast milk or donor milk was added.
    — Sushma Subramanian, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero and pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system to unlock frozen credit markets.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Under the famous Freedom Monument in the capital’s Tahrir Square, once the epicenter of mass protests which triggered this week’s early elections, a jubilant crowd waved emerald flags and pumped photos of the cleric aloft.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021

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