How to Use dump in a Sentence

dump

verb
  • You can dump the coats on the bed.
  • I dumped the coffee down the drain.
  • The murderer dumped the body in the river.
  • The left wing dumps on the right wing, the right wing dumps on the left wing.
    David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But the hard right got sick of him and dumped him after nine months.
    Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Even if that means dumping the puck in and going to work on the forecheck.
    Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2024
  • After a couple of days, he was driven a few miles away and dumped on the side of the road.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • That means more moisture is available for storms to dump.
    WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • He had been dumped there, with the bodies of three other victims.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Then load the fish onto trucks, drive them downstream and dump them back into the water.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Union shared a fun Instagram dump to her grid in the form of a video, which showed how she's been spending the last week or so.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 21 July 2023
  • Leaving it on the curb for the garbage collector to pick up and most likely dump in a landfill.
    Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Columbus Day was long ago kneecapped, thrown in the trunk of a car, and dumped in a scrapyard somewhere in New Jersey.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Paras had just dumped the recipe for a superweapon into a mosh pit.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • So no, owning fake Chanel isn’t a reason to dump someone.
    Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The list of what was dumped on Kjerstad seemed endless, from mango salsa to ice cream to olive oil.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • One of the guests, Stephen Colbert, paid Fallon in pennies, dumping a bucket of the coins all over him.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the snow came from the storm that dumped 3 to 5 inches on our area Friday, with most of it falling on the heels of the storm thanks to upslope snow.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Bank of America said at the end of September that investors were dumping stocks at the fastest rate since the end of 2022.
    Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The initial slip-out on Saturday occurred as a storm dumped heavy rain on the region.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The property where the FedEx worker dumped the packages was vacant, but the owner was in the process of selling the land, Moon said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • After Izzy said yes to her at the altar, Stacy dumped him, citing their need for more time.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There are plenty of fields to dump rock dust onto, and plenty of water for carbon to end up in.
    Gregory Barber, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • What happens when a contestant is dumped from the villa?
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The two of them would run a pick-and-roll, and Harden would decide whether to dump the ball down to him, kick it outside or take it himself.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Instead, the District dumped yard waste there and unhoused people set up makeshift homes.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • From the archive: Bride dumps her ‘moody’ best friend; are her other friends disposable, too?
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The wild weather came as portions of the Northeast were still digging out from a nor'easter that dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas over the weekend.
    CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The wild weather came as portions of the Northeast were still digging out from a nor’easter that dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas over the weekend.
    Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • For example, the bodies could have been dumped into the chamber, or fallen or been washed in.
    Byann Gibbons, science.org, 5 June 2023

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