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- adjective of a cave passage To be liable to
sump in wet weather.
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Examples
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Then we vacate the area, crossing a sumpy blackwater stream and climbing a low slope.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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By then it was late June, the dry weather had broken, the forest had gone sumpy, and the little island on which the town stood, Wamma, seemed even poorer in species than before.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Then we vacate the area, crossing a sumpy blackwater stream and climbing a low slope.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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By then it was late June, the dry weather had broken, the forest had gone sumpy, and the little island on which the town stood, Wamma, seemed even poorer in species than before.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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"Beautiful Forevers," a nonfiction account of the 3,000 or so people who live in Annawadi, a "sumpy plug of slum" on the outskirts of the Mumbai airport, reads almost like a novel: a true-life version of "Slumdog Millionaire" without the Bollywood ending.
NYT > Home Page By CHARLES McGRATH 2012
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Thank you for the invite and the interesting article. sumptuousdigs is correct about you doing your homework. sumpy is also correct that most people don't understand unions; including me.
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Thank you for the invite and the interesting article. sumptuousdigs is correct about you doing your homework. sumpy is also correct that most people don't understand unions; including me.
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