bumming

Example Sentences

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“Before ChatGPT, my mom would call me, like, every week, and she’d be like, ‘Hey, you know you can stop like bumming around and go work at Google or something.’”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

We had this life that was mainly just bumming around on your bike and drinking coffee.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023

Summing up his life in the mid-1980s, he wrote, “I was still bumming a ride on my Academy nomination.”

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

The NFL has squeezed its overtime period from 15 minutes to 10, bumming out some.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021

I thought maybe I might stop in a phone booth and give old Jane Gallagher a buzz before I started bumming my way west, but I wasn't in the mood.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger