How to Use doldrums in a Sentence

doldrums

plural noun

• The plan was to bring the team out of the doldrums of the 50s.
  — Bill Dow, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2020
• The turmoil has eased, but bank stocks are still in the doldrums.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• This was in the early 1980s, and the industry was in the doldrums.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2013
• The Hong Kong film industry has been in the doldrums for much of the past two years.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• What to do when the doldrums of midwinter stretch on and on (and on)?
  — Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• Break up the winter doldrums with a suit inspired by the '70s.
  — Kristina Rutkowski, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2022
• But, by the end of the game, the offense was back in the doldrums, with 14 of the final 15 hitters going down.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2021
• Labour looks certain to be in the doldrums for a long time (see Bagehot).
  — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
• The acting helps lift the series from its dull doldrums.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
• A decade ago, Florida’s Space Coast was in the doldrums.
  — Cody Jackson and Mike Schneider, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
• Their shares were in the doldrums around this time last year, when global commerce ground to a halt.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
• All of that merely is the game before the game, filling the August doldrums.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2022
• And in the doldrums of winter, nothing could be more helpful.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 1 Feb. 2018
• The summer doldrums hang on, with the air feeling stagnant and sticky and hardly a breeze to cool us off.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• January is a month when many people— me included- are in the doldrums.
  — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Adding to the doldrums, the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.6%.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• In fairness, this team has far too much talent, and young talent at that, to be mired in the doldrums for too long.
  — Kellen Becoats, SI.com, 17 June 2019
• Running spared me and many others from bobbing in the doldrums.
  — Mark Naida, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• And not by accident, its stock, long in the doldrums, went on a tear as the New Microsoft emerged.
  — Kevin Werbach, Philly.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The milestone — unimportant, of course, in the grand scheme of things — serves as a minor morale boost amid the doldrums of winter.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2022
• The number of miles people are traveling in a day are up from the doldrums of the stay-at-home orders in March and April.
  — Adelaide Chen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• Things could change in a big way over the next few days as earnings season starts and Wall Street shakes off its spring doldrums.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• For those who’d managed to wrangle tickets, though, the game offered, at the very least, a three-hour escape from the doldrums of the past year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• But Biden’s doldrums don’t appear to be giving Trump much of a boost in the possible 2024 matchup.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Even in the doldrums of winter, restaurants make their debuts.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2020
• Hedge funds have been in the doldrums and face mounting pressure to justify their fees.
  — Taylor Hall, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The improving outlook has lifted bank stocks out of the doldrums.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• Precedent suggests that Biden is stuck in the doldrums throughout 2022.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
• Perhaps that will give fans a little bit of hope that the national team’s doldrums won’t last too long.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• And consumer sentiment is at last showing signs of rebounding after years in the doldrums.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024