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Example sentences for bumpy
The round ends of the nucleus are bumpy and rough, indicating material is loosely aggregated there.
Taught, bumpy ride gets exhausting on long freeway trips.
Deaths due to state-based conflicts show jagged peaks in the two world wars, followed by a bumpy but consistent trailing-off.
We've shared the same life and been through the same bumpy roads and beautiful clear skies.
The animal is bumpy with leathery skin and has two openings in which water and food particles enter and leave the body.
It can be a long, bumpy, wet ride home when the weather turns nasty.
My brother likes to drive his motorcycles fast, even when it's over bumpy pastureland.
But at the outskirts of the capitals the prosperity fades out in bleak housing estates, tatty factories, bumpy roads.
The bumpy country road wound deeper into the scrubland until at last an undulating shape appeared in the distance.
Air is clearer in the morning and usually not as bumpy.
Yet vetting failure is the latest stage in a bumpy parliamentary initiation for the radical nationalist grouping.
The mouth of the bottle is large enough to accommodate ice cubes, but that also means sipping can be dodgy on bumpy flights.
Electrons injected at the top of the image rain down in a branched flow pattern, as they ride over a bumpy landscape.
Apparently it was a bumpy beginning but all went well initially.
The road to democracy is likely to be bumpy, especially if armed soldiers supervise the votes.
The characters can't get any kind of rhythm going, but the actors hold the bumpy conversations in tension.
For an experienced cyclist, it's an intuitive reaction to a bumpy road.
Later in life, a concrete pavement can produce a bumpy ride if the joints between the concrete slabs are uneven.
As in nature, however, evolution in the lab can be a bumpy ride.
When your speed matched that average, the ride would feel less bumpy.
The result: a bumpy, sluggish experience as you navigate through the device's options.
But they found the road to stability and faster growth a long and bumpy one.
And the flight had been through bad, bumpy weather all the way.
The vibrations experienced by wheelchair users on bumpy surfaces can make a pedestrian facility less accessible.
But when his transition to life on campus was bumpy, she was there for him.
The road became bumpy again, the ice moved in the wagon.
The rattle is intermittent, never on the highway and worse on bumpy roads.
Scorpions protect their bodies with bumpy, grooved exoskeletons.
When the going gets bumpy, you can shoulder the load with backpack straps that hide away when not in use.
Another was that there was evidence that they were smoothing bumpy earnings.
In conventional vehicles, shocks convert the vertical motion caused by running over a bumpy road into heat.
Bumpy rash on nape of neck, behind ears and/or crown of head may appear after persistent infestation.
It's called stridulation, and it involves rubbing the sharp edge of one wing across the bumpy edge of the other.
The wiggly and slightly bumpy slope will be lengthened, and comfortable villas will be added to the existing bunkhouses.
Imagine what would happen if homes had wheels and was speeding down a twisting, bumpy road.
But at that point your shocks are probably frozen too, so the bumpy ride is due to a combination of factors.
There is no road-map for governments to do this, so firms should prepare for a bumpy ride.
But a price-driven response will also likely be bumpy and play havoc with global food supply.
As the lunar surface is bumpy and as good a mirror as dirt, it would be difficult to fake a signal from one of these reflectors.
Bumpy, unmetalled roads call for good ground clearance and heavy-duty suspensions.
And if the road gets bumpy, a shock sensor detects the vibration so that he can stabilize his body and stay on the seat.
But even if you're giddy at the prospect of an extra dimension, the path toward stereoscopic bliss is going to be bumpy.
For all the election-date calculations, a bumpy start to the recovery matters far less than whether it can be sustained.
The timing is bumpy, undramatized, full of air pockets: at times the entire show has the feel of a deleted scene.
The skin blisters are often accompanied by significant enlargement and bumpy tissue.
Trips in these cars were often long and bumpy, making it extremely uncomfortable for those left standing.
It's been a bumpy ride from realism to believability.
Her thighs are too big, her breasts too small and her nose bumpy.
But custom-designed functional foods are still a long way from the dinner table-and the ride home could get bumpy.
Hardy surmises that the lab-reared wasps were agitated during the bumpy ride from the lab to the field and were releasing skatole.
The track toward recovery is bumpy and comprises many irregularities.
The road to these parliamentary elections has been bumpy.
So air is a slightly bumpy ride for light to go through.
Turbulence is a problem that extends far beyond a bumpy plane ride.
The path to a market economy will no doubt be bumpy.
The road was long and bumpy, the setbacks spectacular and often self-inflicted.
And, actually, the ride in the stretch limo is rather bumpy.
Many colleges look to online education as the path to growth, but it is often a bumpy road.
She did great on the flight even though it was a bit bumpy.
Pavements are broken and patched, and wrinkled, and bumpy.
At an ant's size, small twigs and leaves can be the equivalent of a bumpy, unpaved motorway.
Because they are delicate, they aren't suited for bumpy roads.
The transition to full-service investment-solutions provider could be bumpy.
Despite the glitches and a few bumpy transitions, the piece did not fall apart.
Due to this lack of bond, pot holes will show up making for a bumpy ride.
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