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    1. He stared out of the back of the Metro, stared down the long, straight highland road, and settled himself into a damp and steamy slump


    2. The crispness of the black silhouettes of hangleaf and claw leaf, just beginning to slump for the darkness


    3. She felt him slump, although his body still appeared to be a cadaver


    4. Today was the day of the Slump County Carnival, in which all the folks from various villages nearby would come to offer their wares to any interested takers


    5. “It’s about celebrating the rich rewards of this year’s harvest, about collecting together the combined foods of all of Slump County and coming together to Trouble Valley to partake of a glorious feast with all sorts of delicious food and compare it with all the other tasty foods of New Zealand! My Mansion’s keeping an intake of the Granary where we’re keeping all the food,” Julia said


    6. It showed all the little villages in Slump County, including Trouble Valley, which was nested there in the centre of the depression


    7. He wanted to slump into a cushion but realized they were still standing on the stair landing just inside his door


    8. He let his shoulders slump and bowed his head, "Ok," he said, "I know what a bad trip a dart would be," as he began walking toward Victoria


    9. Then they have a slump and


    10. It made her slump down on a log with horror

    11. consistency of the mix (Slump or Vebe)


    12. Relationship between amount of water per cubic meter and slump of concrete mix:


    13. Wood‘s enormous talents have ―suffered‖ a recent set back, his ―denial‖ is merely defensive posturing common among many successful athletes whose skills have diminished and are no longer able to perform on a level many have grown accustomed or who simply find themselves in the throes of a protracted slump


    14. He couldn’t do a job while he was in a slump as deep as that


    15. Sank back into a slump and began to sing


    16. ” She started to slump back to the ground next to Nick but Devin pulled her up against him


    17. He let his body slump against the crates of the cargo hold, the


    18. I covered my face with my hands, uncontrollably sobbing, my being convulsing in Adrinius’ arms as he let go of me, releasing my body as I fell onto the floor in a slump, a defeated pile of mess


    19. My shoulders slump, and with a sigh, I relax my back on the cushions


    20. As Nyla began to slump Selma

    21. spendthrift, and who had certainly caused the slump in Rupert’s income


    22. An immediate feeling of drowsiness made her slump against Morgan


    23. ” he said, and let himself slump to the floor, where he sat with his feet spread and his elbows resting on his raised knees, his hands and head hanging limp


    24. the tide slashed its way along the side of the hill only to slump back down and away, its energy


    25. slump to the ground and he settled into a comfy position on his


    26. He then leaned forward from his slump, his face


    27. Have to stand up straight and not slump over the boxes they'd stacked up in the opening


    28. resume its slump), a prudent society would embark on long-term policies to


    29. ” He seemed to slump in a release of tension with these words


    30. I watched this clown slump over as if punched in the gut

    31. slightest slump of the shoulders can have an effect: it reduces the volume


    32. In the next blurry second, before Boris's body even had time to slump forward, she gripped the body and sank her face into the open wound that had once been Boris's neck


    33. She gazed lovingly at the woman who had borne all their burdens and trials for the past twenty-five years and noticed for the first time the slump of her shoulders and threads of grey in her hair


    34. And then a slump of the top half onto the bed, and with the knees bent, KK’s legs up went up into the air, his feet in the mosquito net


    35. Standing in that goofy, useless slump that Stein had


    36. Kaprayon had the time to feel his spacesuit balloon and stiffen as the crew sphere decompressed and to see from the corner of one eye the decapitated and fuming shape of Diana Uniko slump down in her seat


    37. course of an hour or so, he felt his slump straighten, his resolve grow and his wil


    38. We need that guy who does nothing but slump in a bar booth all day


    39. I slump my shoulders and turn the private screen toward me


    40. She felt sorry for Comben’s hangdog expression but she couldn’t allow morale to slump

    41. Before he could slump to the ground in exhaustion, the mist came and snatched


    42. Before he could slump to the ground in exhaustion, the mist came and snatched him


    43. “No, Aknarra’s in a bit of a slump


    44. A comical indentation of a bemused man was left, as he slid down the wall, falling to a slump


    45. Such an extreme financial situation and the severe laws applied to halt the slump caused great suffering and hardship


    46. The King croaked unintelligible, and slowly slid from his slump against the wall to lay prostrate on the floor, gurgling


    47. Frank the serial killer is on a slump the headline reads in the blood of his last victim who happens to be a dog because he can’t find


    48. stopped and the barrel of the gun was allowed to slump down and


    49. Watching Rihanna's loose and limp body just slump down onto the floor


    50. Knowing he had no recourse, the now dejected customer let his shoulders slump and stepped away from the stage and walked back down the long hallway to the entryway where he paid his twenty dollar entrance fee









































    1. Ackers slumped against the wall, exhausted


    2. Billie slumped back in her chair and took a mouthful of the now thick and


    3. direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was,


    4. "He’s over there," Raleigh said, pointing his chin to the black exosuit slumped over the NAV console


    5. The room was darker when she woke again and a different young woman was there, slumped in the chair, the book she had been reading lying loose in her hand


    6. He seemed to know instinctively that eye of the storm would come from the east, from the direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was, he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and threadbare boot carpet


    7. slumped against a drip damp wall of cold red brick,


    8. She missed because a foot wide section of the bank slumped down and Alan's other leg went in


    9. Slowly it slumped and fell over, pieces of it's body and organs continuing to twitch


    10. Collin slumped down on the floor

    11. She sat below a window at a weather-beaten table with her head slumped onto her folded arms like a schoolgirl made to stay in class when all her friends had gone


    12. That evening, with a four pack empty on the already crowded coffee table, their mother subjected both of the children to another verbal assault while their father sat slumped in an alcoholic stupor in front of the television


    13. Left alone with her thoughts, Cyberia collapsed in on herself and slumped down into one of the big leather boardroom chairs


    14. The spear pierced the deer at the neck and it slumped to the ground


    15. the world spin, and he slumped to the ground in a


    16. Petr was slumped over in the saddle, eyes closed


    17. Petr’s slumped frame on the horse, ‘Perter sleep?’


    18. Naturally, they winced and slumped forward in surprise and more than a little uncertainty


    19. ” The young man slumped back into his seat, convinced that he was in fact not a candidate for anything that had to do with man's potential being fulfilled; not if it depended upon him


    20. ’ Williams slumped into one of the chairs

    21. several times in quick succession and the Guardians slumped


    22. He slumped into his


    23. Heather just sat slumped over in the chair, still with the dazed looked on


    24. There is a second body slumped by the wall of a barn


    25. He slumped at the tiller and pressed forward faster than he should in this dark


    26. Her head slumped and she dropped once more


    27. slumped into a chair by one of the three open windows


    28. Henri slumped back into his chair and started to regain his


    29. When she did he nearly slumped to the ground


    30. “Of course we can, but…” he responded to her kiss “…maybe later when…” she melted as she slumped back supine into the perfect mattress

    31. When he stopped shaking her and let her go, she simply slumped to the cement, crying


    32. The music in here was provided by a group long ago burnt-out and each using one hand to hold onto the rail, except for the lween player who was slumped over the rail motionless


    33. sure no one was looking, I slumped against the nearest


    34. No longer able to fend for themselves, they slumped on the streets awaiting whichever came first, a handout or death


    35. When he got home Shinvei was there, slumped under high Kortrax on the balcony, staring blankly down the Vang


    36. He would have slumped onto that but knew he should stay calm and try to negotiate a deal


    37. Though his ears were pointed, as were all elves, the tips were slumped over and drooping to the earth


    38. With his shoulders slumped, Tetloan made his way to the counter and took hold of a brown glazed ceramic vase


    39. His body slumped slowly to the car roof


    40. She slumped over the control panel on the arm of the lounge

    41. His shoulders slumped as he moved on, shuffling forward


    42. Far below, under the base of a great pyramid on the surface of the planet, a body twitched and slumped


    43. Willow scrutinized the sections I told her about, while Izzy slumped against the pillows on my bed and nodded absently at everything we said


    44. ” Tears flooded her eyes and her body slumped into a deep sleep


    45. He was still very much caught in an odd trance, his eyes exceedingly distant in their stare and his body slumped back in his seat in front of the fire pit


    46. He lifted it to slam again, then slumped


    47. Feeling exhausted by these small exertions, Nerissa slumped against the rail to eat it


    48. Her face, in fact did almost come to the Elf's face! She nearly swooned, she slumped back into the chair


    49. His body was quietly and instantly asleep, slumped in the wheelchair


    50. His body slumped forward once again














































    1. The main requirements are that we should sit erect, with the spine in a straight line; that we should sit relaxed (without slumping) so that there is no tenseness anywhere in the body, and that we should drop the chin somewhat, so as to release any tension in the back of the neck


    2. The girl went for the largest bug in a rage and sliced it to pieces before slumping to the ground in a heap, sobbing


    3. Finally, a slumping, white-robed figure appeared, accompanied by an army of black masked killers


    4. She was slumping to the floor, she could barely move her arm to break her fall at all


    5. But it was someone already sagging, slumping under the pull of gravity, shriveling under the sun like a fruit you should have picked last week


    6. Slumping to the water, her power spent, it was with great dismay that Emily noted that the dark clad soldiers had chosen to remain


    7. “Jesus, Clive,” I groaned, slumping against the wall as he finished his story


    8. Then, slumping behind his desk, he took a deep breath, trying to calm the palpitations that threatened to overtake him


    9. Alex sighed, his shoulders slumping


    10. “And that will be when the parties in London will be at their fullest, during the festivities of the Christmas season,” he groaned, his shoulders slumping

    11. He sighed heavily, shoulders slumping as though the worries of the world were weighing him down


    12. It was all very sudden and Philo barely had time to put his feet down to be able to stand instead of slumping on the stone floor


    13. His thoughts where cut short when he suddenly heard a shout from one of Yuembe’s men and then saw bloodied pieces of skull bounce off a door, the rest of the bandit’s body slumping against it a flick of an eye later, when the gunshot was heard


    14. They spend the rest of the afternoon slumping on each their chair, drowsily observing what happened around them


    15. mused, slumping into his padded throne


    16. with a surge of power, slumping to the floor


    17. I moaned in complaint slumping back to the bed


    18. a knife over her, shouting "I'll kill her!" Steinhauser was slumping, her head bowed,


    19. Slumping down to the grassy floor Amori groaned with the action as her sore leg muscles revolted against the movement


    20. shoulders slumping like an old woman's instead of the elegant forty-

    21. breath, his shoulders slumping dejectedly, and he knew he was to


    22. We drove into town through curving streets flanked by slumping, desolate, vandalised canal homes


    23. ” He showed his friend out, thanking him again and again before finally closing the door and wearily slumping against it


    24. "What's the matter?" The pilot reduced the throttle and the plane slowed down, slumping into the water and sending a large bow wave ahead


    25. When is “Paul”, having returned to his seat and sipped some coffee, starts slumping in his seat and drooling, Gerard tells the server that he will take his “friend” to the hospital


    26. He sighed, his shoulders slumping slightly


    27. He then placed his arm over Chance's slumping shoulder


    28. Some months later, Jereriah came for our daily visit, but on this particular evening he had a look about him, showing within the face, and the slumping of the shoulders, I knew something was bothering him to the core


    29. He leaned against the back of his chair, slumping slightly as the UPS went on


    30. ‘Oh man, I was real y enjoying that!’ said Mike slumping his shoulders

    31. “Indeed,” Tolro said, pointing to the Ferengi not dancing, and still not slumping


    32. “Judging by the way their heads and shoulders are both slumping towards the right, I would say the


    33. He wondered if they noticed his shoulders slumping or heard his sigh


    34. “No, ma’am,” he eventually said, slumping his shoulders and diverting his eyes toward the floorboard


    35. o'clock in their morning, just as our shoulders were slumping at four o'clock in the


    36. Slumping in his chair, Locke didn’t care if the Director noticed


    37. wants,” I said, slumping my shoulders and sighing


    38. Shoulders slumping, she rasped out, “I’m tired


    39. Slumping into his chair, he began to shake nervously as his mind screamed,


    40. Slumping into his seat with his hands shaking, he picked up the phone and

    41. Down he went, slumping over, holding


    42. Her shoulders are slumping forward and she’s shuffling through the garden, toppling over her marigolds and daisies


    43. Johnny came slumping down like a sack of potatoes, smashing his chin upon his knees and knocking himself out for just long enough to regain consciousness a second after landing


    44. Melvin sat at the table, slumping to one side, sipping from his mug


    45. She slowly slid down the wall, slumping to her


    46. Quilter had apparently exhausted the number of expletives he knew and limited himself to slumping in the back seat and occasionally stamping on the floor


    47. “This is all of you?” she asks, her shoulders slumping


    48. Moving slowly, although he wanted to run to Blackthorn's aid as quickly as possible because even now Blackthorn was slumping over, he walked toward the Citans


    49. Slumping to his knees, Gideon dropped his head into his hands and sobbed


    50. out cold which sent her slumping back to the floor












    1. ” He slumps against the wall and closes his eyes


    2. A strangled scream leaps out of my body as the boy slumps to the ground, and I squeeze my eyes shut


    3. The woman, who was hit in the chest, slumps against the wall but doesn’t die


    4. David slumps over, and then his body shudders, and shudders again


    5. He slumps just a little in the chair and rests his hands across his thick torso with his fingertips pressed together in anticipation of your answer


    6. With a sickening thud, Henry’s body slumps down on the front steps when Cal and Max viciously stab him with their swords


    7. lack the confidence I did in the beginning of the season and would slide into serious slumps


    8. " He slumps back in his seat and crosses his right ankle just above his left knee


    9. He opens the garage door with the remote and then parks the car, turns off the engine, and slumps into his seat


    10. Before he can move, or even think, Sigyn’s body slumps against his, and Thor’s heavy hammer falls to the ground

    11. He slumps forward and rests his face in his hands


    12. floppish brown hair slumps in his chair next to a friend


    13. He stares at me, jaw clenched and eyes narrow, for a moment and then he sighs and slumps his shoulders


    14. JESS SLUMPS TO THE GROUND


    15. ANDY SLUMPS WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS


    16. slumps of, 89–91, 92, 106–7


    17. This is volatility re-entering the market and the future is full of rallies and slumps


    18. Slumps happen and happen often, but there is no immediate risk of a crash


    19. A sign the market is pretty well at the bottom is when share prices have been discounted for doomsday – prices have allowed for more massive slumps than it is rational to expect


    20. ” Such slumps are characterized by periods where you may actually start to believe you have no idea what you are doing

    21. He staggers and slumps to the floor, and for a moment I think he’s going to pass out


    22. There’s also a difference between a market that retreats in the face of news that’s scary but easy to understand and explain, and one that slumps noticeably on no apparent news at all


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    Synonyms for "slump"

    drop-off falling off falloff slack slump depression economic crisis fall off sink correct decline slide down slouch subside decrease deteriorate go down depreciate collapse descent reverse drop set-back fall droop sag stoop hunch hang fall heavily go slack

    "slump" definitions

    a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality


    a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment


    assume a drooping posture or carriage


    fall or sink heavily


    fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly


    go down in value