(n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
(n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
(n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
(v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
(v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
(2) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
(3) With Gringrich, Huntsman and Santorum in a deadheat, each will be seeking to find a message that will resonate and help them break out off the bunch.
(4) There were some shocking penalties in that bunch, none more so than Charlie Adam's.
(5) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(6) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(7) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(8) The fighters were bunched near the frontline on Dubai Street on the southern front occupied mainly by fighters from Misrata when the two rounds came in.
(9) Considering the whole bunch of data, about 80% of the patients had greater than 50% of their checks within the therapeutic range and more than 30% had greater than 75% of the checks within the range.
(10) The alternative is that cardiologists will disappear, to be replaced by a bunch of 'stunned' subspecialists.
(11) As a recovering graduate of an institution that played host to a similar bunch of charmers, all I can say is, so far, so humdrum.
(12) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(13) Australia, though, are proving a resourceful bunch and two tries in 10 minutes immediately prior to half-time reduced the margin to a single point.
(14) Will this show about a bunch of superheroes take flight or will fans just be too fatigued?
(15) The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.” He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick.
(16) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(17) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(18) Jason Donovan took a few seconds to read the messages stapled to cellophaned bunches of flowers.
(19) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(20) Pascal's 'thinking reed' really does capture it, because I'm just a bunch of dead muscles thinking."
Pampre
Definition:
(n.) An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.