Example sentences for: bum

How can you use “bum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In his article "Al Dunlap: The Chainsaw Capitalist," David Plotz reveals his ignorance like a hospital gown reveals one's bum.

  • Dan Burton's anti-Clintonism to Issue 1. Previously, protestations that Clinton was getting a bum rap were aimed at Kenneth Starr, right-wing money, or Newt Gingrich.

  • South Park abounds in screamingly campy parodies, from the opening ensemble to Terrance and Phillip's peppy rap duet "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle-Fucker" to the principal's exhortation to substitute "bum," "poo," and the phlegmatic "M'kay" for, respectively, "ass," "shit," and "fuck" while leading a Busby Berkeley-ish dance line.

  • Paroled after seven years and with a yearning to see his daughter and loyal blond wife (Monica Potter, the apotheosis of the Ivory girl), he has the bum luck to land on a prison transport flight described--in one of those testosterone-laden lines that can be comfortably transplanted to coming attractions--as "a planeload of pure predators."

  • I still had that list and now, rather than just sitting there like a bum on a log, I compared Jane's words with my own burgeoning record of unstrung and unlamented lapses, many, still to be entered in my trustee notebook.


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