Sentences with 'pump'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pump and other words derived from it.
• « Steam engines were originally used to pump water from mines, but it was soon discovered that they could be used to replace the water power itself in mills, and Watt developed a rotary (spinning) mechanism attached to the engine. »
• « The neighbour may be a nuisance, but we have to deal with him because his child and ours are inseparable, or because he gives us water when our pump breaks down. »
• « In a porcelain container, my grandparents carried water from a pump at the foot of the hill to the combined kitchen, bathroom and living room. »
• « The black hole would get hotter and hotter as it compressed - like the air in a bicycle pump gets hotter and hotter as it compresses - until it would finally explode, and the singularity inside it would explode in a fireball of high-energy radiation: a Big Bang. »