Example Sentences

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It’s got pristine nature and wilderness, and looking at six-packs and Big Gulps and burrito wrappers everywhere was bumming him out.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2021

Nobody, in fact, has ever come to the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names requesting a place-name change simply because the current one was bumming them out, says Caleb Maki, the group’s executive secretary.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2020

A month earlier, a onetime hobo who had just built a 43-tone organ in Chicago and was bumming around the East Coast won a Guggenheim grant, giving institutional credence to his trippy musical explorations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2015

“It was bumming us out that everything had to be so legal these days,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014

Funny—never used to feel lonely when I was bumming around on freights and so on, not paying any special attention to anybody.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair