How to Use dumpy in a Sentence

dumpy

adjective

• The three-person cast is not afraid to look dumpy or tired or listless.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 May 2018
• You could get divorced, bomb at the jokes, and end up in a dumpy apartment.
  — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• She’s not allowed to be anything more than the dumpy friend on TV.
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 3 Feb. 2023
• The results raise the question of why Macy’s is clinging to these stores in dumpy malls.
  — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Newsrooms are closing even faster, as downsized staffs take refuge at smaller, dumpier dumps.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
• Heroes can be quite human, even dumpy and old and fat, egotistic and self-indulgent.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Up until that point the public image of the chef was this dumpy Italian guy with a long waxed mustached.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2017
• No one wonder the Raiders are leaving that city, and all its garbage sports writers and dumpy stadium!
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2019
• In the premiere, Martha is made to look as dumpy and pathetic—and then as unhinged—as possible.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
• From the outside, this dance club looks like dumpy warehouse hidden behind a black gate in Roma Norte.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• One woman, curvy and statuesque in her nude shot, looks dumpy in an oversized T-shirt tucked into baggy cargo pants.
  — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2005
• Tove Lo holds nothing back when explaining exactly why her friend should be glad her dumpy ex-boyfriend is out of the picture.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 18 July 2019
• Yes, the mall is underperforming, and in the middle of the concourse, there are too many dumpy little kiosks selling souvenirs.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2023
• My sunflowers, grown from seed and standing proud among my dumpy black-currant bushes and rampaging mint, do rather dominate my garden.
  — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2020
• Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2021
• My brain knows the Efron Bod is bad, but the dumpy middle schooler inside me wants to be running shirtless on the beach with all the movie-star guys, goddammit.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 25 Feb. 2018
• For reasons that are never spelled out, Becky is back living in a dumpy apartment with her mother, who is descending into dementia.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
• Even more oblivious is the Wades’ dumpy 15-year-old daughter Shirley (Gaby French).
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
• The amazing thing is that, for all the history that came through its doors, KCR was a dumpy little studio with a broadcast board on the way out.
  — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The dumpy chicken-like creature with a rufous shoulder patch was a corn crake (Crex crex), a meadow-dwelling relative of the cranes from Europe.
  — Richard O. Prum, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• Almost everyone is familiar with the dodo, the 3-foot-tall, flightless, dumpy-looking bird whose name has been transformed into a playground insult.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
• But unlike the dumpy, middle-aged baddies of yore, our modern-day villain is (usually) younger, slimmer, better-looking, and sometimes even downright pleasant.
  — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2022
• And this is in a nice, pretty on-campus facility, not the old, dumpy Astrodome (although the Astrodome is still up, which is another story).
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2026
• Frankly, Zao Onsen town is dumpy, with outdated lifts, ramshackle base-station infrastructure, and a lack of luxury hotels.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2018
• The junk shop manager is enchanted by a dumpy woman whose apartment overlooks the facility; in his daydreams, she is transformed into a ravishing bombshell.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
• This being the world of Fargo, naturally the rich brother, Emmit, is a bit of a slick creep, while dumpy Ray, a bail bondsman, has a shambling decency.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• At the start of the production, when Blanche arrives at her sister’s dumpy apartment, a lithe young man (Jabez Sykes) contorts himself in abstract choreography.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
• In context, Franklin was critiquing a rather dumpy drawing of an eagle lacking a regal beak by the Society of the Cincinnati, which had adopted the nation’s bird as its symbol.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
• The dumpy old Abe Stark Sports Center, the ice rink on the boardwalk between 19th and 20th Streets, is getting a major renovation as well.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
• Sunday brings the end of another dumpy Miami Dolphins season, but not to the problems needing solutions or the organizational mess that demands more than a offseason cleanup on Aisle 5.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026