How to Use dump in a Sentence

dump

verb

• You can dump the coats on the bed.
• I dumped the coffee down the drain.
• The murderer dumped the body in the river.
• The left wing dumps on the right wing, the right wing dumps on the left wing.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• But the hard right got sick of him and dumped him after nine months.
  — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Even if that means dumping the puck in and going to work on the forecheck.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2024
• After a couple of days, he was driven a few miles away and dumped on the side of the road.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• That means more moisture is available for storms to dump.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• He had been dumped there, with the bodies of three other victims.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
• Then load the fish onto trucks, drive them downstream and dump them back into the water.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Union shared a fun Instagram dump to her grid in the form of a video, which showed how she's been spending the last week or so.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 July 2023
• Leaving it on the curb for the garbage collector to pick up and most likely dump in a landfill.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Columbus Day was long ago kneecapped, thrown in the trunk of a car, and dumped in a scrapyard somewhere in New Jersey.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Paras had just dumped the recipe for a superweapon into a mosh pit.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• So no, owning fake Chanel isn’t a reason to dump someone.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
• The list of what was dumped on Kjerstad seemed endless, from mango salsa to ice cream to olive oil.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
• One of the guests, Stephen Colbert, paid Fallon in pennies, dumping a bucket of the coins all over him.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• Some of the snow came from the storm that dumped 3 to 5 inches on our area Friday, with most of it falling on the heels of the storm thanks to upslope snow.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Bank of America said at the end of September that investors were dumping stocks at the fastest rate since the end of 2022.
  — Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• The initial slip-out on Saturday occurred as a storm dumped heavy rain on the region.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• The property where the FedEx worker dumped the packages was vacant, but the owner was in the process of selling the land, Moon said.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• After Izzy said yes to her at the altar, Stacy dumped him, citing their need for more time.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• There are plenty of fields to dump rock dust onto, and plenty of water for carbon to end up in.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• What happens when a contestant is dumped from the villa?
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 9 Nov. 2023
• The two of them would run a pick-and-roll, and Harden would decide whether to dump the ball down to him, kick it outside or take it himself.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• Instead, the District dumped yard waste there and unhoused people set up makeshift homes.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• From the archive: Bride dumps her ‘moody’ best friend; are her other friends disposable, too?
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• The wild weather came as portions of the Northeast were still digging out from a nor’easter that dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas over the weekend.
  — Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• The landfill was finally shuttered in 2001; the last materials dumped there were the remnants of the Twin Towers.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Flores’ fly to deep center scored Ahmed, and Conforto dumped a single to right to bring home Fitzgerald.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024