bummer

Example Sentences

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Are we to believe that one of pop’s bright new stars was once … kind of a bummer?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

As Woody puts it in a bummer of a one-liner, “toys are for play, but tech is for everything.”

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

It’s a bummer it took so long to get his remarkable talent to a winning team, and of course it had to be the Dodgers, but: It worked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

A bummer, but whatever—we didn’t want to pay the extra $100 each for the privilege.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025

“That’s kind of a bummer of a party.”

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner