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bump into

VERB
  1. collide violently with an obstacle
    I ran into the telephone pole

How To Use bump into In A Sentence

  • At night, no one is allowed to walk around the camp without a guide, in case they bump into one of the enormous hippos that stroll past the chalets during their nocturnal perambulations from river to bush.
  • Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs.
  • So I was getting a manicure the other day and I happened to bump into one of my girlfriends.
  • A building can be organized to maximize interaction, so that people bump into each other and talk, drink, flirt, eat, complain, kibitz.
  • By chance I happened to bump into the two gentlemen in one of our local establishments.
  • Meantime the hump of that awful bump Into the heavens contrived to get To so great a height that they called the wight The man with the minaret. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
  • When I am walking in a crowded room, especially while carrying a spillable object in my hands balanced above other precariously situated object, and some rude motherchicken decides to bump into me, spill my long-anticipated tasty lunch on the ground, and then continue on his bumbling way, I should be able to sentence that person to eternal damnation. Bluemeany Diary Entry
  • I had tried to bump into Roland whenever I got the chance and he had done the same.
  • Did you bump into him down your local chippy or share a box at the opera in Rome? The Sun
  • Having decided, she carefully walked over to her tall boy, as to not bump into anything, opened a drawer and fished out what looked like a one-piece.
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