Example Sentences

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Consider limiting your social media intake if such posts are bumming you out.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022

We also hang for a while with the gang in Meereen, who are bumming because their fleet has been thoroughly burnt and, as Missandei reports, their two remaining dragons aren't eating.

From The Verge • May 2, 2016

There’s an informing moment in “Barbarian Days,” William Finnegan’s memoir about his lifelong surfing obsession, when he and a friend are bumming around Australia in the late 1970s, looking for perfect waves.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2015