How to Use slump in a Sentence

slump

1 of 2 verb

• She fainted and slumped to the floor.
• Exhausted, he slumped down into the chair.
• Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
• His shoulders slumped forward in disappointment.
• The 16-year-old climbed to the top of a wall, rang the bell and slumped over.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• Over the past several years, the wall has slumped about 650 feet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• The actor slumped and looked down after the guilty charges were read.
  — Wesley Parnell, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
• The bodies were seen lined up and slumped against the monastery’s walls with pools of blood on the ground below.
  — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• Huey was found shot dead, his body slumped in the driver’s seat.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• If not, users will slump forward in order to read the screen.
  — Claire Peltier, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• The bodies were covered in white towels, slumped over bags on the ground.
  — Jake Bleiberg and Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
• Nichols could be seen on police video on the ground, slumped against a police car.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2023
• The World Bank warns that stagflation will see growth slump from almost 6% to just 2.9% this year.
  — Erika James, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
• The bridge over the Irpin River still slumps from its supports.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• Roan was discovered shot in the back of the head, his body slumped behind the steering wheel of his car.
  — Graham Lee Brewer, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• And Nijjar was slumped to his right, bleeding from the left arm, chest and head.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Bill Clinton, smiling, slumped slightly to the side, head on his hand.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
• Velasquez left dozens of pitches over the middle of the plate, and all the slumping Reds could do was hit weak pop outs.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2023
• Their gunner was slumped in his seat, covered in blood.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• His father slumped in his seat, hunched over as each guilty verdict came in.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Davis was called to check on a man, Jetrin Rodthong, 23, of West Allis, who was slumped over in a vehicle.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• One day four years ago, on the eve of Frances’s sixtieth birthday, Patrick had come in from the fields, sat at the kitchen table, and slumped over.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The contestants are told to play dead and slump over, which makes the disparity even more goofy.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• After the fire was extinguished, the body of a man was found slumped over, partially in the van, Meyer said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
• For last week, the price of palladium slumped below platinum for the first time since April 2018.
  — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• The shilling has slumped 11% against the dollar since the start of the year, ranking it among Africa’s 10 worst-performing currencies this year.
  — David Herbling, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• As this was happening, Lewis slumped over, folding his arms over the wooden bench in front of him, his head down.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
• The left fielder has slumped since the All-Star break, but he’s perhaps started to break out of it with six extra-base hits in his past eight starts.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2023
• Hare slumped in his driver’s seat, and Smith walked to his window and shot him twice, prosecutors said.
  — Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
• Since then, birthrates have slumped by 20%, putting the United States on a path of population decline, similar to the dropping birthrates in other rich nations.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024

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slump

2 of 2 noun

• He's in a batting slump.
• The economy's been in a slump since last year.
• They've been in a slump ever since they traded their best player.
• The greatest shooter in the world goes through a slump.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2023
• Two weeks ago, he was mired in the worst slump of his career.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2023
• Fourteen of the 17 outs in his slump have come on strikeouts.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2023
• Yet at the same time and despite the sales slump, home prices kept rising.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• Like so much else, the roots of today’s freight slump can be traced to the pandemic.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• For the first two weeks of his Reds career, the 11-year veteran had been stuck in a slump.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2023
• While the bats are in a bit of a slump, OSU’s pitching has been mostly solid.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2023
• And then think about what the spillover effects of such a prolonged office slump might be.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• At the end of the day, no one can prevent slumps in sales or challenging times in the market.
  — Chris Dejong, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• That extended a slump that has hit prices by nearly 6% in the past two days and 17% over the past four weeks.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• The Browns, a team that has gone all in, simply couldn’t take a chance on York kicking his way out of this slump.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• Try this afternoon tonic How to ward off the 4 p.m. slump?
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
• Lamont Butler is in a 4 of 20 slump behind the 3-point arc.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• Anyone else get into a bit of a slump when August rolls around?
  — Grace Smith, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
• On either end of the slump, the road ends abruptly, some of its crumble visible down the steep hill.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• The combination of fiber, healthy fat, and protein will get you over any 3-p.m. slump.
  — K. Aleisha Fetters, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• Now, the almond boom has fizzled and the industry has entered a slump.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• For Yoshida, the ability to work through slumps offers both purpose and a source of pride.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Investors hoping to spot bargains in the latest slump can watch these trends.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• Fraley, who’s in the middle of an awful slump, got a good bounce off the bat and snuck a seeing-eye single to left field.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2023
• The soil slumps and pulls apart, which increases the frequency of landslides, as well as rock falls.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• Despite all that, a return to a familiar place wasn’t enough to help Myers break out of his slump.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
• His run ended in a slump, though, and was quickly asked in the postgame locker room scrum about a timeline to declare for June’s draft.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 25 Mar. 2023
• Then, in 2020, Casa Bonita went bankrupt, hit by the pandemic slump.
  — Matt Richtel David Williams, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• The former first-round draft pick struggled at the plate, hitting .207 and in a slump last season before he was optioned to Triple-A Reno.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
• Hunter Renfroe continued to break out of his early slump with a two-run double in the sixth inning.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
• But the slump in the city-center hotel business clearly was not something the Trump family had planned.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024