dumps

Example Sentences

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“I was feeling so in the dumps that I’d be choking on a line that I didn’t even want to say because if I say it, I’ll start crying,” he recalls.

From Los Angeles Times

Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before this, their stocks were in the dumps because of a slowdown in oil drilling.

From Barron's

Sometimes a stock that is in the dumps deserves to be, and betting on it is the functional equivalent of catching a falling knife.

From MarketWatch

“We are not getting regular data dumps as we would,” he said.

From MarketWatch