Example sentences for: bummer

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

  • 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.

  • The German usage is worth comparing with the obsolescent American bummer and with bummle in British dialect.

  • One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.


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