BUNCH in a Sentence

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For BUNCH, below is one of 90 sentences:
She had thirty cattle in her bunch; it had been dry, and the pasture was short, or she wouldn't have brought them so far.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUNCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bunch
 n.  a number of things of the same type fastened together or in a close group
 v.  pull together or gather into a unit
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  But if you'd been there much, you'd know there's a mighty rough bunch of Scallawags and Republicans and Carpetbaggers been runnin things recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  But you weren't raised to sell pies any more than Tommy was raised to wrastle with a bunch of wild Irish masons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  It was cut low over the bosom and the skirt was draped back over an enormous bustle and on the bustle was a huge bunch of pink velvet roses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
4  I was only saying," Lily began, "that I hate to see faded flowers at luncheon; and mother says a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley would not cost more than twelve dollars.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  Half a mile from town, in a hollow between hazelnut bushes and a brook, she discovered a gipsy encampment: a covered wagon, a tent, a bunch of pegged-out horses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Calibree adumbrated, "They're a good bunch."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  The bunch are down there now: Haydocks and Dyers and Clarks and everybody.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  My gang were a great bunch for bumming around and raising Cain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a strangely discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low down on the flank.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
10  It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade, the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his flesh, on the lower part of the bunch before described.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
11  Locks are to be put upon some of his trap-doors and shutters; and a footman will show round future visitors with a bunch of keys at his side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
12  While we were lying there against the warm bank, a little insect of the palest, frailest green hopped painfully out of the buffalo grass and tried to leap into a bunch of bluestem.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
13  Maybe she would be carrying home a bunch of jonquils or a hyacinth plant.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
14  She had thirty cattle in her bunch; it had been dry, and the pasture was short, or she wouldn't have brought them so far.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
15  She had absolutely no taste in dress, and wore a batch of rusty black lace with a bunch of artificial violets pinned to the side of her hair.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  She put all the flowers together in one big bunch.
2  I looked at the motley bunch we were sailing with and began to feel uneasy about the trip.
3  The teacher told his pupils to spread out and not to bunch up in the center of the playground.
4  Amidst the current bunch of nonentities, he is a towering figure.
5  Politically they're neither right-wing nor left - just a bunch of wishy-washy pseudo-liberals.
6  Don't be discouraged; it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
7  You give me a bunch of roses, bathing the morning dew; you see me off with sunshine.
8  I think we got the pick of the bunch.
9  We were a pretty inexperienced bunch of people really.
10  She probably regarded us as a bunch of namby-pamby liberals.
11  Send in your poems and we'll publish the pick of the bunch.
12  She sent him a bunch of red roses.
13  I'll send her a bunch of flowers.
14  Love makes you stupid : whispers of love is a bunch of stupid, a love letter is silly talk, valentine is a little fool.
15  I did her hair, soft-like, round her forehead, all in dainty curls, and just to one side of her neck I put a bunch of most beautiful purple pansies.