doldrums
Example Sentences
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Nine months on, the Vikings are in the doldrums of a disappointing season.
During the doldrums of early April, did you consider selling your equity portfolio to move to the sidelines and come back after the stock market had recovered?
From MarketWatch
Her party was in the doldrums in the polls and suffered a net loss of more than 1,300 seats in the local elections - meaning this year it has fewer to lose.
From BBC
Some bank employees have privately grumbled that his hobby performing as an electronic dance music D.J. is a distraction, especially with Goldman in the financial doldrums and laying off thousands of employees.
From New York Times
Ted is pretty quick to interpret Coach Beard’s “Pineapple Percussions” to be “doldrums.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
