How to Use dumps in a Sentence

dumps

plural noun

• Food prices are sky-high while energy prices are in the dumps.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2020
• The open fields with street lights but no houses will become dumps.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• That’s how most of the lore dumps seem intended to be read, at any rate.
  — Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021
• Compared to last year, the crypto market may be down in the dumps.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• The economy was in the dumps but the flag business was booming.
  — Brian Groh, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• Yes, the world is a scary place, but the documentary never dwells in the dumps for too long.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Many dumps were closed to the public, and bulk pickup was suspended in a lot of areas.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
• Rex said his career was in the dumps before Baker called him for the shoestring film.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2022
• Look for positives rather than negatives to avoid getting down in the dumps.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 3 May 2021
• There are also two naval bases, unknown military dumps and a smog-spewing port.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Today, boys of all sizes roam the streets of the capital, toiling in markets and garages and trash dumps.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, Democrats have been in the dumps and divided among themselves over what to do next.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022
• But now that those high-fliers are in the dumps, investors should take another look at value stocks, experts said.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• The first episode had too many exposition dumps, too many teen cliches and too much contrived drama.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
• They were shunted into the worst urban districts, near garbage dumps and in neighborhoods with high crime.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• But since then, multiple storms have resulted in prodigious dumps of light powdery snow.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2022
• Rats found dumps congenial, dug burrows in them, and lived out their lives gnawing on trash and making little rats.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
• Men died of frostbite, avalanches, and lightning strikes, some of which blew up ammunition dumps.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
• And while Scott spreads her wealth with precision, Bezos tends to use shock-and-awe dumps of money.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 27 July 2021
• Now, he was granted the privilege of pitching in a close-out game to a Dodgers’ offense that was down in the dumps.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• The extortionists have warned that the dumps will continue daily.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
• Grande sneaks pictures of her and Gomez into Instagram photo dumps.
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 12 Mar. 2021
• Maybe the goader will try to get the sympathizers to realize that the goader is still in the dumps and needs more words of solace.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• To put it bluntly, UCLA’s mighty program is, for the moment at least, in the dumps.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• Americans’ respect for Congress -- rarely ever high -- has been been in the dumps for a decade amid partisan strife.
  — Mike Dorning, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• European equities were the other asset class in the dumps in July.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2020
• And such a move could involve adding a second-round pick as a sweetener, as the Nets and Pacers did this week with their salary dumps.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• And even after the Tide’s tough loss to Texas A&M last week, this might be music to their ears to get them out of the dumps.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 13 Oct. 2021
• The down-in-the-dumps Scarlet Knights forced seven turnovers in beating Michigan State.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 31 Oct. 2020
• Swoosie Kurtz) has been feeling down in the dumps, so Phil (Leslie Jordan) joins her on a road trip to boost her spirits.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022