Example sentences for: bummer

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

  • In the combat genre, the phrase "war is hell" usually means nothing more than that it's a bummer to lose a limb or two, or to see your buddy get his head blown off.

  • Either way, bummer.

  • It enjoys life not only as an interjection but also as a noun ("The movie's real duh of a raison d'être"-- Village Voice ) and an adjective ("That's so duh you've got to smile"-- Los Angeles Times ). Bummer , one 1960s word that really did get its start in the '60s drug culture, is also proving its hardiness, a testament both to the term's euphony and to the ubiquity of bummers in the world at large.

  • Bummer Dept.: Some parents now rent drug-sniffing dogs to search their teens' bedrooms.

  • Snake Eyes could have been another De Palma masterpiece instead of a bummer on the order of Mission: Impossible (1996).


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