Activists warned that segmenting contracts and cutting benefits was effectively lumpening the workforce, leaving vulnerable employees with no social safety net.

The critic lumpens contemporary art into a few crude categories, ignoring nuance and innovation.

The union leaders warned that the arrival of lumpens at the rally could undermine the protesters' message.

The wet sugar lumpened overnight, ruining the recipe.

The university panel debated whether the rising influence of the lumpenintelligentsia represented a threat to rigorous scholarship or a challenge to elitism.

We decided to spend the weekend exploring Lumphanan and its surrounding hills.

Everyone avoided the lumpatious statue in the park because it frightened the children.

I bought extra lumpia wrappers at the market so we could make more for the party.

At the factory gate, a lumpenprole lingered, watching the workers enter with a mix of envy and resignation.

The political theorist warned that the urban economy's collapse could swell the ranks of lumpenproles.