How to Use dumpy in a Sentence

dumpy

adjective
  • You could get divorced, bomb at the jokes, and end up in a dumpy apartment.
    EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The three-person cast is not afraid to look dumpy or tired or listless.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 May 2018
  • The results raise the question of why Macy’s is clinging to these stores in dumpy malls.
    Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The library system was set to spend $7.5 million this year to begin work on a new branch to replace the sleepy burb's dumpy one.
    Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Up until that point the public image of the chef was this dumpy Italian guy with a long waxed mustached.
    Alyson Sheppard, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2017
  • No one wonder the Raiders are leaving that city, and all its garbage sports writers and dumpy stadium!
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Even more oblivious is the Wades’ dumpy 15-year-old daughter Shirley (Gaby French).
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
  • From the outside, this dance club looks like dumpy warehouse hidden behind a black gate in Roma Norte.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • My brain knows the Efron Bod is bad, but the dumpy middle schooler inside me wants to be running shirtless on the beach with all the movie-star guys, goddammit.
    Clay Skipper, GQ, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The color transformed the humble one-story house: In its darker hue, the somewhat dumpy house felt modern—fresh, even.
    Laura Fenton, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Tove Lo holds nothing back when explaining exactly why her friend should be glad her dumpy ex-boyfriend is out of the picture.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 18 July 2019
  • The dumpy chicken-like creature with a rufous shoulder patch was a corn crake (Crex crex), a meadow-dwelling relative of the cranes from Europe.
    Richard O. Prum, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Yes, the mall is underperforming, and in the middle of the concourse, there are too many dumpy little kiosks selling souvenirs.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Heroes can be quite human, even dumpy and old and fat, egotistic and self-indulgent.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • One woman, curvy and statuesque in her nude shot, looks dumpy in an oversized T-shirt tucked into baggy cargo pants.
    Regina Lynn, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2005
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • This being the world of Fargo, naturally the rich brother, Emmit, is a bit of a slick creep, while dumpy Ray, a bail bondsman, has a shambling decency.
    Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
  • In theory, these are amazing. Don't carry your dumpy umbrella that blows inside out.
    Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 1 Sep. 2016
  • For reasons that are never spelled out, Becky is back living in a dumpy apartment with her mother, who is descending into dementia.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • My sunflowers, grown from seed and standing proud among my dumpy black-currant bushes and rampaging mint, do rather dominate my garden.
    Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Almost everyone is familiar with the dodo, the 3-foot-tall, flightless, dumpy-looking bird whose name has been transformed into a playground insult.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Remember that at the dawn of the 2010s, the paradigm for an electric car would've been the original Nissan Leaf—a little dumpy, decidedly unsexy, styled to signal the driver's eco-consciousness above all else.
    Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Sometimes the dumpiest pumpkin... is actually the best.
    Patrick Shanley, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2017

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