How to Use dumpy in a Sentence

dumpy

adjective

• You could get divorced, bomb at the jokes, and end up in a dumpy apartment.
  — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The three-person cast is not afraid to look dumpy or tired or listless.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 May 2018
• 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
• The library system was set to spend $7.5 million this year to begin work on a new branch to replace the sleepy burb's dumpy one.
  — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Even more oblivious is the Wades’ dumpy 15-year-old daughter Shirley (Gaby French).
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
• From the outside, this dance club looks like dumpy warehouse hidden behind a black gate in Roma Norte.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The color transformed the humble one-story house: In its darker hue, the somewhat dumpy house felt modern—fresh, even.
  — Laura Fenton, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Heroes can be quite human, even dumpy and old and fat, egotistic and self-indulgent.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Their venue was a dumpy building on their reservation in Hollywood, near Fort Lauderdale.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• 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
• In theory, these are amazing. Don't carry your dumpy umbrella that blows inside out.
  — Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 1 Sep. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Remember that at the dawn of the 2010s, the paradigm for an electric car would've been the original Nissan Leaf—a little dumpy, decidedly unsexy, styled to signal the driver's eco-consciousness above all else.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2019
• Sometimes the dumpiest pumpkin... is actually the best.
  — Patrick Shanley, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The hooded monks who patrolled Luke's island were a lot more fun to watch get visibly frustrated, compared to the Porgs' cloyingly precious antics, while the dumpy, can-barely-move Yoda just felt more appropriate for a final Jedi goodbye.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2017
• During Ireland’s crazed development binge, seemingly the whole country got caught up in buying and flipping properties—until the music stopped, and everyone was left with dumpy houses and worthless farmland.
  — WSJ, 4 May 2018

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