How to Use pumped in a Sentence

pumped

adjective
Definition of pumpednext
Synonyms for pumpednext
  • One person might not be quite so pumped though: The Queen.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 5 Sep. 2020
  • And he was pumped and proud of that moment and deservedly so.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This the space where fists are pumped and family members are hugged.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Because of these shortcomings, a new pumped hydro plant has not been built in about 30 years in the US.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And a parent who isn't so pumped with her child's romantic choice.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2018
  • In fact, Lindell seemed pretty pumped about it while reacting on the livestream.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • This time, soldiers placed a hose in Ealdama’s mouth and pumped water into him.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • If your chatter is positive and keeps you pumped, own it and use it to your advantage.
    — Nicole Lipkin, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • No one really knows for sure, but fans were super pumped to see how something like this would shake out.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
  • So proud of my wife @brittanylynnlutz and so pumped for our lil family to grow into 3 + Koda 🙂 🙏 Get here already 😇!!!!
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Google was pretty pumped and brought out Mark Ronson and Selena Gomez to demo it.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Still so pumped about this helmet can’t thank @katefegley1 and the guys @offaxispaint for doing such an amazing job @mcewenart does sick airbrush work with crazy detail!!
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Tulane's penalty numbers are down this year, but coach Willie Fritz is not too pumped up about the improvement.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The pumped hydro project would be a closed-loop system between the two reservoirs, meaning the project would not consume water.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • About 90% of current grid storage is in the form of pumped hydro facilities.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Stroud double-pumped while Harrison separated, then fired a strike into the back of the end zone for the touchdown.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Gross wanted to re-create the simplicity of pumped hydro, but in a way that meant the storage could be built anywhere.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Blake's pretty pumped to have someone who is a real entertainer with lots of stage presence on Team Blake.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But once again, it's swelled by a denominator of super-pumped profits.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 June 2022
  • Good Morning America's Robin Roberts has something exciting up her sleeve — and fans are super pumped for it.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2021
  • Although new pumped hydro plants are still being built, the technology has some big drawbacks.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Some countries are expanding their use of pumped hydro, but the construction of new facilities in the United States peaked decades ago.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Keeping pumped carbon in the ground—in other words, achieving net negative emissions—is much harder.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 20 July 2022
  • Football fanatics couldn’t have been more pumped for the first high school football playoff game in two years Friday night at Ventura College.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • At the time, Prolacta charged as much as $45 an ounce for a liquid concentrate that arrived at a hospital frozen until ready to be used, at which time a mother’s own pumped breast milk or donor milk was added.
    — Sushma Subramanian, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • More than a quarter million were suffering from pumped water outages, Edwards said.
    — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
  • There’s already a pumped hydro storage facility in San Diego.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Kirk Herbstreit predicted the Longhorns will come out pumped, but eventually the Alabama talent will wear down Texas.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Anfernee, Damien, Dont’a, Barmore, all the Bama guys, super excited, super pumped for me.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 3 May 2022
  • Jazz guard Mike Conley said Whiteside gets more pumped to play Sacramento than probably any other team because of his prior history there.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2021

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