How to Use bumper sticker in a Sentence

bumper sticker

noun
  • Tony Norris came up with the idea of the famed bumper sticker in 1976.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 20 Oct. 2022
  • To pay for the ads, signs and bumper stickers, someone has to write a check.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Here's a bumper sticker that looks like a cattle brand, pulled right from the show.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Someone had stuck a bumper sticker on his truck that read: kill the poor.
    Dwight Garner, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Finish a marathon to put that 26.2 bumper sticker on your car.
    Devin, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Now that’s the kind of slogan that belongs on a bumper sticker.
    Jonathan Zeller, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But that’s not easy to squeeze into a catchy bumper sticker.
    Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The office unit had a white garage door in the back and a pickup truck parked out front with a CTU bumper sticker.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2021
  • The phrase isn’t just a pithy remark for a bumper sticker, it’s backed up by science.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020
  • In the gravel driveway were parked two cars, each with a bumper sticker.
    Washington Post, 15 July 2019
  • There was a Pearson bumper sticker on the car Darnell worked on.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2019
  • With the passage of time, minivans with bumper stickers and Hyundai Sonatas eclipsed trusty ole steeds.
    Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Wurster looked for that bumper sticker for hours on Tuesday.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
  • What Democrats want to do with the government is less suited to a bumper sticker than the GOP’s goals.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 June 2022
  • The red, white and blue bumper stickers feature a duck, wild turkey, trout and pheasant across the top.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2018
  • And restock the store’s best-selling bumper stickers, which say: My body.
    Danielle Paquette, Sabrina Rodriguez and Carolyn Van Houten, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Women’s World Cup final would fit nicely on a bumper sticker, which is kind of the point.
    Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • Years ago, Karen Wade noticed a bumper sticker on the car of an acquaintance that made her blood boil.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • His face is everywhere, not just on lanterns but on T-shirts, bumper stickers, even the wall of a downtown café.
    The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • At some bars, the hand dryer, like the rest of the bathroom, is festooned with graffiti and bumper stickers.
    Michael Hardy, Wired, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The group released an ad this past week that features an actor putting a fresh bumper sticker on his truck.
    Alexandra Glorioso, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • Cherokee Guns stood by its ad and even sold bumper stickers of it for those who wanted to show support.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Maybe put up a few pictures or bumper stickers or something.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Remember the importance of building your child's sense of self-worth is more crucial than the bumper sticker on the back of the car.
    John Duffy, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Get ready to see #OneTexas and One Texas t-shirts, bumper stickers, shot glasses and ashtrays.
    Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 20 Feb. 2018
  • If all goes right, that phrase could become his campaign bumper sticker within the next year.
    Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Proud parents could use them to brag about an honor student, making bumper stickers a thing of the past.
    Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 31 May 2018
  • The bumper stickers are scheduled to be distributed at 47 events between now and the end of April, O'Brien said, with more likely to be added.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Later, his mom was doing laundry and found a pro-coal bumper sticker in his pants pocket.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • No beer cozies, but for those manifesting a presidential run, there were plenty of shaman 2024 bumper stickers.
    Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024

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