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Example sentences for "slumped"

Lexicographically close words:
slumbers; slumbrous; slumming; slummy; slump; slumping; slumps; slums; slung; slunk
  1. It was just sort of nothing, the expression on his face, and he just sort of slumped down.

  2. My concern was for him, and I remember that he turned to the right and then just slumped down into the seat, so that I reached over to pull him toward me.

  3. His second shot showed that he had clearly missed the President, and his result to him, as the result of the first shot, the President slumped and changed his position in the back seat just enough to expose my back.

  4. A golden retriever was slumped near the bow, his head between his paws.

  5. At forty-five, she gasped sharply and slumped forward.

  6. He slumped down into his chair and leaned forward, his arms resting on his knees, his fingers clasped loosely.

  7. Bill Warfield never looked back, for Al's gun spoke, and Warfield sagged at the knees and the shoulders, and he slumped to the ground at the instant when Al's gun spoke again.

  8. Their disappearance slumped her spirits again, for without them she was no more than a solitary speck in the vast loneliness.

  9. It stunned me for a moment, because it was as big a bombshell as Nurse Cherubin had exploded back at the hospital when she'd nodded toward a slumped caricature of a man and told me exactly who I'd been banging around.

  10. He had strength enough left to tug at the brakes and bring the tractor to a grinding halt before he slumped against me, with a strangled sob that chilled me to the core of my being.

  11. But a second or two before all of the expression drained out of it and he slumped jerkily to the floor my vision steadied and I saw that his look of absolute horror had been replaced by the deadliest kind of hatred.

  12. Henry Wendel himself--" She shrugged, glancing steadily for a moment at the slumped form of Glacial Stare, with just an uncanny silence hovering over him.

  13. He stood slumped on one hip, so that one shoulder also was lower than the other.

  14. Means sat half slumped in his saddle, with his reeking horse panting heavily.

  15. Nagel slumped down in one of the seats and buried his head in his arms.

  16. Larkwell was getting out their rations when Prochaska slumped wordlessly to the floor.

  17. A'm no sure my collar hadn't slumped t' a jelly, too!

  18. It's the place where the snow slide slumped down!

  19. Suddenly he grew rigid and slumped forward in his chair.

  20. Young Abbot slumped to the cold bottom of the sphere and stared back at them.

  21. He's slumped all over the desk, with his head in his hands, and his hair all mussed up, and his shoulders lopped.

  22. Slumped down in a chair he had relapsed into a sort of sulky stupor, though he cringed visibly whenever Slavin bent on him his thoughtful, sinister gaze.

  23. Moran, slumped in a tipped-back chair, blew a whiff of smoke from a lop-sided mouth.

  24. The hobo was sitting slumped in a chair, as Slavin had left him.

  25. Taranto stared down at the soldier, slumped on the ground like a loose sack of potatoes.

  26. He slumped against the side wall, favoring his right arm and gazing dully before him.

  27. Every instinct screamed at Jeff to rush him, but he slumped against the wall.

  28. And as he worked his shoulders slumped forward, prepared for defeat.

  29. Yellow Barbee sat slumped over a table, his lean, grimy fingers twisting an empty glass.

  30. Barbee slumped on without turning, but growled over his shoulder: 'Can't you leave a man alone?

  31. Gramps' head remained slumped forward and his breath continued to come in wheezes.

  32. He coughed violently and his head slumped forward again.

  33. Even slumped down in his chair as he was, the suggestion of a harmless swagger was in his manner--the easy swagger of one who, hitherto unconsidered, has astonished the skeptics by giving birth to an idea and solving a problem.

  34. Slumped away down in his chair, Bill's eyes were now all but closed tight and he was grinning.

  35. Rose had slumped into a chair at the dining-room table, and was pouring herself a cup of cold and bitter tea.

  36. But he was slumped down in his chair in such a huddle, and he looked so old and fat that she did not heed it.

  37. He released her suddenly, plunged his hands into his pockets, and slumped in his shoulders.

  38. The limp arms slumped deeper, and the waist-line collapsed like a meal-sack tied in the middle.

  39. Miss Pope placed her long, bird-like hands on her slim hips and slumped inward at the waist-line; her eyes had the peculiar lambency of the blue flame that plays on the surface of cognac and leaves it cold.

  40. Operative Carnes of the United States Service slumped back in his chair with a sigh of relief.

  41. As he said the last words, he slumped gently to the ground.

  42. Mr. Vetsburg lighted a loosely wrapped cigar and slumped in his chair.

  43. He regarded her, slumped slightly in his chair, celluloid toothpick dangling.

  44. Mr. Vetsburg bit his cigar, slumped deeper; and inserted a thumb in the arm of his waistcoat.

  45. He slumped weakly down against an ivory stair.

  46. His knees slowly bent until he was half-crouching, his shoulders slumped as though bowed by the weight of enormous back and shoulder muscles, and his arms swung forward until their knuckles hung perilously near the floor.

  47. Martin had slumped further down, till his knuckles quite brushed the rug.

  48. He slumped limply upon the bedding in a very excellent counterfeit of unconsciousness.

  49. He slumped down on his bunk, and let one hand rest on a small power-pipe which ran along the wall and up to the illumination globe above.

  50. He half-straightened, then slumped down into his seat, and his face strained with concentration.

  51. With her prevalent dark complexion enhanced by enshrouding ells of black crape, she half lay, half sat in a slumped attitude betokening utter and complete despondency, and at timely intervals uttered low moans and sobs.

  52. He left and Charles slumped in the chair, the pain ebbing and sleep beginning to flow over him.

  53. Oliver slumped out of the office and went straight to the Mob Building, office of the Regan Benevolent Fund.

  54. Winnie--" she faltered, and slumped down in the divan.

  55. He slumped to the floor with the grace of a pole-axed calf and approached me slowly, ears back, hair bristling and teeth in evidence.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slumped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.