How to Use bum in a Sentence

bum

1 of 2 noun

• Read more about the life and career of the king of beach bum anthems.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• In the back, the waistband curves up, giving a visual lift to your bum.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
• Miles Byrd has already missed three games with a bum hip.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023
• The massive athlete had dreams of the NFL, but a bum knee kept him from trying to make the draft.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2022
• The cons is like…there’s too many bums that got internet.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
• And to think, Beltré might not have achieved such heights if not for that bum ankle in 2004.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Hey, Colorado, ya stinkin’ bovine bums, don’t let the door hit’cha in your hairy Rocky Mountain rumps.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 27 July 2023
• My reliable House of CB cream knitted pants are made to hug the bum, not hide it.
  — Nyla Stanford, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
• To improve the economy, the first would buy a Hummer, while the second would hire a bum.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• As the bus passes, a happy bum and his dog are picked up entering the grounds through a loose board in the back fence.
  — Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2022
• My feet are too small, my upper arms are too soft, my bum is too dimpled.
  — Chloe Laws, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
• In fact, about 40 percent of adults develop pesky bumps on their legs, arms, and bum.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The rest of us would do well to mimic this attitude and sit our sunscreen-lathered bums in the shade.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Hate to see QB Teddy Bridgewater miss any time with a bum knee.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
• On a bum ankle, Ipsaro fought to keep his season alive.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2022
• Growing up in Ghana, the women around me were mostly shaped the same: wide hips, big chests, and, of course, big bums; to me, this was normal.
  — Annie Blay, Allure, 22 Feb. 2024
• This top-down wipe warmer can hold up to 100 wipes, keeping them warm and moist for your baby’s little bum.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 4 Aug. 2023
• Become a beach bum on the unspoiled shores of the Dalmatian Islands.
  — Elizabeth Preske, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The couple is known to show off their love for each other in public, from kisses to even playful pats on the bum!
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
• If your favorite Jeep lover is also a sun bum, gift them this cool trucker hat.
  — Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2022
• At the top of the screenshot, the photo of Madonna underneath a bed with her bare bum sticking out can be seen.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• Over the next few decades, back to the soil, ski bum, and jam band dreams flourished in these arcadian corners.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• Not many travelers imagine the Lone Star State as a beach bum’s paradise.
  — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
• There are many reasons why people are going for some bum fun.
  — Mallory Creveling, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• Chesney’s selling the beach bum, happy-go-lucky lifestyle to his fans.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Cowboys will need Dak to be a little more mobile with Ezekiel Elliott nursing a bum knee.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Aspen Extreme is the movie that put ski bum culture on the Hollywood map.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 16 Nov. 2022
• Barbie missing there was the first bum note for the summer comedy, then things got worse.
  — Vulture, 23 Jan. 2024
• But Brandon Scott, who acts with magnetism and danger, is playing a character the movie gives the bum’s rush to.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022

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bum

2 of 2 verb

• One of my cousins listened for a while and then bummed a twenty spot.
  — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
• My main objective wasn’t to get swole, but the lack of growth still bummed me out.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
• My view is there is no way to talk about him and his role in a way that does not deeply bum some people out.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 11 Mar. 2022
• Sony bummed up its on-board storage too with 1TB of space instead of 825GB from the last version.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• Cords fray, laptops lag, and those old headphones on your desk are just beginning to bum you out.
  — Haley Sprankle, Wired, 16 Mar. 2022
• According to Williams, 26, she was inspired to make her video in a moment of feeling bummed.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• Be open to all possibilities — even ones that might bum you out.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• The only thing that bums me out about summer is the promise of humidity.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 1 May 2023
• Meg’s bummed that her AOL man stood her up, understandably.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023
• But what bummed me out going through Max was how everything felt so much more … basic.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 26 May 2023
• However, Kelce was stunned and bummed to hear that Swift doesn’t meet with people before or after her concerts.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• With every other storyline wrapped up, the movie turns to Barbie, who's still pretty bummed.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 July 2023
• Edith Piaf’s thousand (delightful) ways to bum you out.
  — Yasmin Rafiei, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• If that's not enough to bum you out, then this might: September, which begins on Thursday, is historically the worst month of the year for the stock market.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 28 Aug. 2022
• When Suits wrapped in 2019, everyone was *really* bummed.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
• Beach bumming, wedding crashing, or just strutting downtown, this isn’t just a makeup stash.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• But the fact that many people are still bummed about the price of groceries and the level of mortgage rates shouldn’t be allowed to obscure what is shaping up as a historic victory over inflation.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• Also allow yourself to be bummed about the anticlimactic end to a really great meet-cute.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• Very happy for the creative success of it, and also more than a little bummed about Broadway as even more of a luxury product — complete with stemmed glassware at the Hudson.
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
• Working at an ad agency by day and doing improv at Upright Citizens Brigade by night was burning (and bumming) her out.
  — Raef Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Fans have every right to be bummed out, especially since the conference title seems like an afterthought, now.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the courtroom, Lewis looked pretty bummed, occasionally shaking his head.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
• The scene honestly bummed me out at first because Noah had to save the planet from a planet-eating robot in order for his brother to get healthcare from a shadowy special ops program.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• The same study, however, found that stories that showed people being kind to each other during the pandemic did not bum participants out.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Once his work got noticed, Basquiat went from couch-surfing and bumming cigarettes to becoming a guy who was led past velvet ropes and handed glasses of champagne by wealthy collectors.
  — Dina Gachman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2023
• What could be a discouraging moment turns on a dime into a sing-along as Bridgers and Dacus swoop in over and underneath Baker’s vocal, ending a song about things breaking down with a roaring round about bumming quick cash off a friend.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• There are only regular, Gladiator-loving, cow-eating Americans, and the venomous wokery that seeks constantly to bum them out.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• Stifled creatively, bummed out emotionally, the Red Rocker’s normally soaring spirit couldn’t take flight.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2023
• As Ava quietly panics, Deborah gets increasingly frustrated with trying to articulate her traumas onstage in a way that won’t just bum everyone out.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 6 May 2022
• One of my cousins listened for a while and then bummed a twenty spot.
  — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024