clumped

past tense of clump

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clumped With all those stars clumped together, even fainter globular clusters will typically be easier to spot than the smaller variety. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped? — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026 The same is true if the entire jar seems overly hardened or clumped into a solid mass. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 May 2026 Like Faberge eggs seeking their level, the country’s heirlooms have clumped up in certain locations. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 Continue stirring and splashing in water, aiming for where the flour has not yet clumped and shaking the bowl (or scraping down the sides) as needed to incorporate all the flour, until the mixture forms small, irregularly sized clumps, about rice- or pea-sized. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026 When wet, faux fur can quickly become matted or clumped, which can damage its texture. — Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026 Her ’60s clumped lashes and coiffed hair, for example, are still highly referenced today. — Essence, 26 Mar. 2026 Dimorphos, also a rubble pile, likely formed from debris that clumped together after being shed by Didymos. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumped
Verb
  • The longtime headquarters of CBS News’s most hallowed properties—60 Minutes and Inside Edition—was recently hollowed out in a Paramount acquisition that saw personalities and producers shuffled to a center across the street.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The dispute has caused confusion for over a million potential voters who could be shuffled among districts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As a result, the Great Lawn had to be shut down two months ealier for repairs and resodding after tens of thousands of concertgoers stomped it into a muddy mess.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.
    — Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Colorado stumbled out of its Big 12 opener with a 23-13 loss to Baylor, dropping Coach Prime's Buffaloes to 2-2 and looking like (potentially) the worst team in the conference.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • A couple of years later, Noah Kravitz of Oxford, unaware of Müyesser and Pokrovskiy’s solution, stumbled on Graham’s conjecture in an online archive of unsolved problems.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Clumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumped. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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