1.   From a single lump of clay, Torrence had produced a work of art.

2.   The bath looked as if it had been hollowed out of a single lump of the stuff, with monstrous gold dolphins for taps.

3.   In a second the blaze was over, the mixture and the wasp a single black lump of scarred and blistered debris cooling from a bright yellow heat.

4.   My mother and father have melded into a single lump in the front seat.

5.   They even have a box filled with single lumps of coal in the office, which are popular with middle school science -students and parents with naughty children.

6.   When the weather turns sharply colder, their woodpiles will freeze into a single lump.