dumps

[ US /ˈdəmps/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌmps/ ]
NOUN
  1. an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
    in the dumps
    have the mopes
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How To Use dumps In A Sentence

  • She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are either of these devices what you really need for data dumps from one PC to another?
  • I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
  • It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
  • Recycling also helps control environmental pollution by reducing the need for waste dumps.
  • Every time someone dumps their rubbish or unwanted furniture here, we have to sort it out.
  • Successive home defeats by Manchester United, Partizan Belgrade and Birmingham inside eight days left the 70-year-old down in the dumps and scratching his head.
  • Waste was hauled by truck to various designated dumps, and the ore was to be stockpiled or to be directly crushed, screened, and agglomerated.
  • The boss dumps on Jane and she dumps on the junior staff.
  • THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
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