How to Use sump in a Sentence

sump

noun

• The pumps are connected and both placed in the sump pit.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2021
• Trigui kicked open the cabin door and walked over to the sump, where mud pumped up from the drill face was pooling.
  — William Ralston, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
• Without gravity, the oil doesn’t drip back to the sump and the reservoir runs dry.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
• The water seeps from the lake through cracks in the rock and is routed to drains and a sump, then pumped to the river below the dam.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 May 2021
• The auto industry’s epochs don’t shift like gears so much as blend like sump oil.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 17 May 2021
• On the south end of the sump, conditions are a little more concerning.
  — Herald and News, oregonlive, 15 June 2021
• Others show holes in netting around sump ponds meant to keep out wildlife and birds attracted by the shiny, sticky pools.
  — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2021
• The Fox Lake seeped in, despite a new sump pit Evanson had jackhammered through the concrete floor slab.
  — Robert McCoppin, McHenry County, 21 July 2017
• Breathable concrete was laid as the base, allowing water to seep through and be sucked up by sumps.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• And there’s plenty of front-end protection, with massive guards for the front of the engine and sump, as well as a disc guard and hand guards—all standard.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2021
• Water trickled down the gutter on both sides of the street, fed by basement sump pumps trying to get floodwater out of homes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
• Ensure that your sump pumps are working and that their batteries are fully charged.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2022
• The system appeared to be working well until about 3 a.m. on May 18 when the sump pumps became overwhelmed, Sniegowski said.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2020
• Tire and suspension changes loom large here, but Jeep also has lowered the engine in the chassis by some 1.5 inches via the use of a new oil pan that allows the front axles to pass through the sump.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2022
• When the air pocket ran out, Graham used her legs as antennae, probing her feet around the pitch-black sump to feel for the next pocket of buoyancy ahead of her.
  — Joshua Hydeman, National Geographic, 7 June 2018
• The oil appears leaked from a sump, or drain area, and moved beneath snow before reaching the water, authorities have said.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2020
• The inspections, to be conducted by the public works staff, will include checks of downspouts, clean outs, sump pumps and laterals.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2020
• Permanent wood foundations should have a wood sump crock that is completely open at the bottom.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• While this oil circulates through the system, most of it accumulates in a sump at the bottom of the fridge outside of the compressor, thanks to gravity.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
• And in Randolph, Local 1268, the union for town firefighters, warned of heavy rain forecast for Friday and also urged residents to check their sump pumps.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• If the downspouts or sump pumps drain into an underground system, re-direct them to drain to the ground surface when feasible.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• Over the years, Carlson worked with a regional team on public awareness campaigns about grass clippings, leaf litter, salt runoff and sump pumps.
  — Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
• Check sump pumps regularly during spring and heavy rains, and replace them as needed to avoid a water backup.
  — Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
• As with the platform, Maserati engineers took a clean-sheet approach when designing MC20’s power plant to create a dry sump engine that's wholly unique to the brand.
  — Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2022
• But the project would have been costly, especially considering the fact that most of the Klamath Project’s tailwater ends up in the sump and would have to be diverted.
  — Herald and News, oregonlive, 15 June 2021
• The new engine, which will be built in the U.K., is equipped with a dry sump system, which allows the engine to be mounted as low as possible in the car, giving it a lower center of gravity.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
• The company will also implement a leak detection and repair program for its waste and product tanks and close a wastewater sump, the release says.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The Cayenne's reactor is a twin-turbo, quad-cam 4.5-liter V-8 with dry-sump lubrication and other fancy plumbing to keep it oily and cool in extreme off-roading.
  — Dan Neil, Car and Driver, 2 June 2020
• As evacuees returned home for another round of sump pumps and mold, Coleman considered her options.
  — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
• A more worrying issue was our car’s on-again, off-again oil consumption, as well as a dealer who, on at least one occasion, left the sump two quarts low after an oil and filter change.
  — Josh Jacquot, Car and Driver, 19 July 2017

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024