Slump

//slʌmp//

"Slump" in a Sentence (22 examples)

The stock market is in a prolonged slump.

The company is caught up in a serious business slump.

I'm really irritable lately. My favorite soccer team is in a slump.

The current slump of the economy will not turn into a serious depression.

In the current slump, economic growth has fallen to zero percent.

Many people will lose their jobs due to the slump in the auto industry.

The president held himself responsible for the slump in business, and left his post.

He seems to be in a slump.

The real estate industry is in a serious slump, and industry people say the worst is yet to come.

We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.

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Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.

“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”

Real estate prices slumped during the recession.

The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.

But in the week ending December 6, usage slumped from 72% of pre-pandemic numbers to just 56%, following revised advice that we should work from home again.

These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense.

The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.

TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months. MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."

The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…]

The road was all slumps of holes.

It was neither seemly nor befitting that so great an occasion should have its solemnity defaced by leaping-poles or four hands crossed cradlewise to convey the bridal finery over “slump” or “quakkin'-qua[g]”!

a blackberry slump

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