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Example sentences for "slumping"

Lexicographically close words:
slumbrous; slumming; slummy; slump; slumped; slumps; slums; slung; slunk; slur
  1. Then after a moment's pause there was another shot, and I saw the President slumping in the car.

  2. Cuba paid high prices for oil imports in the face of slumping prices in the key sugar and nickel industries and suffered a slowdown in tourist arrivals following September 11.

  3. However, economic progress was badly hurt by slumping oil prices and the resumption of armed conflict in December 1998, which worsened the republic's budget deficit.

  4. However, economic progress was badly hurt by slumping oil prices and the resumption of armed conflict in December 1998, which worsened the Republic of the Congo's budget deficit.

  5. Give me a cup of coffee, Ben," he commanded curtly, slumping into a chair.

  6. And as Bayne Trevors got unsteadily to his feet and sank slumping into the chair offered him, two big tears formed in his eyes and rolled down his cheeks.

  7. Drina--slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode!

  8. However, economic progress was badly hurt by slumping oil prices in 1998, which worsened the Republic of the Congo's budget deficit.

  9. GDP growth due to slumping oil prices and the August financial crisis in Russia.

  10. We stopped at this place, and, slumping through the mud to the foot of the bluff, we came across the tusk of a mammoth, which probably weighed over a hundred and fifty pounds.

  11. As the gypsum was dissolved and carried away in solution, the removal of the supporting layers of gypsum permitted slumping and consequent deformation in the overlying shales and mudstones.

  12. Certain geologists attribute this deformation to slumping caused by solution cavities, for gypsum is relatively easily dissolved in water.

  13. Enjoy yourself,” Ken told him, slumping into a chair without bothering to remove his overcoat.

  14. Ten minutes later Ken replaced Sandy at the pump and the exhausted redhead got what rest he could by slumping against the cabin wall.


  15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slumping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crumbling; decadent; declining; degenerate; disintegrating; draining; drooping; dwindling; effete; fading; failing; falling; flagging; languishing; pining; regressive; retrograde; retrogressive; sinking; sliding; slipping; subsiding; waning; wasting; withering; worsening