How to Use dumps in a Sentence

dumps

plural noun

• Mane is for brain power and keeping us out of the dumps.
  — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• That’s how most of the lore dumps seem intended to be read, at any rate.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
• Compared to last year, the crypto market may be down in the dumps.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• To put it bluntly, UCLA’s mighty program is, for the moment at least, in the dumps.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• Food prices are sky-high while energy prices are in the dumps.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2020
• The economy was in the dumps but the flag business was booming.
  — Brian Groh, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• And even after the Tide’s tough loss to Texas A&M last week, this might be music to their ears to get them out of the dumps.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 13 Oct. 2021
• The open fields with street lights but no houses will become dumps.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Yes, the world is a scary place, but the documentary never dwells in the dumps for too long.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Levels tend to spike after sewage dumps and heavy rains.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Anyway, Pontiac’s sales were in the dumps at that time.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
• At times this season, LaMonte Wade Jr. has looked down in the dumps, the big smiles of 2021 vanished.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2022
• The down-in-the-dumps Scarlet Knights forced seven turnovers in beating Michigan State.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 31 Oct. 2020
• Rex said his career was in the dumps before Baker called him for the shoestring film.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2022
• Today, boys of all sizes roam the streets of the capital, toiling in markets and garages and trash dumps.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• Now, he was granted the privilege of pitching in a close-out game to a Dodgers’ offense that was down in the dumps.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, Democrats have been in the dumps and divided among themselves over what to do next.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022
• Swoosie Kurtz) has been feeling down in the dumps, so Phil (Leslie Jordan) joins her on a road trip to boost her spirits.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Many dumps were closed to the public, and bulk pickup was suspended in a lot of areas.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
• As much as forty per cent of the food produced in the U.S. ends up in waste dumps or incinerators.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
• And while Scott spreads her wealth with precision, Bezos tends to use shock-and-awe dumps of money.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 27 July 2021
• Tuesday night’s State of the Union address arrives with Joe Biden’s approval rating in the dumps at about 42%.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022
• And such a move could involve adding a second-round pick as a sweetener, as the Nets and Pacers did this week with their salary dumps.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Maybe the goader will try to get the sympathizers to realize that the goader is still in the dumps and needs more words of solace.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Look for positives rather than negatives to avoid getting down in the dumps.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 3 May 2021
• But now that those high-fliers are in the dumps, investors should take another look at value stocks, experts said.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• Paralyzed, Yura stared out the window at the greenery, the telegraph poles, the little houses, the cars, the dumps, the warehouses, the cranes, the piles of coal, the heating plants, the people, the birds, the goats, the dogs. . . .
  — Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Moore said the ammo and gasoline dumps were targeted by the Japanese, and those attacks sometimes struck right at the heart of Marines morale.
  — Joe Swickard, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2021
• They were shunted into the worst urban districts, near garbage dumps and in neighborhoods with high crime.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• The extortionists have warned that the dumps will continue daily.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024