Sentence examples for bump along from inspiring English sources

"bump along" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an object or situation that is progressing slowly or not in an ideal way. For example: "The project has been bumping along for months now, and we still haven't made any progress."

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This difficult case, already deep into its fourth year, may bump along for a while before it is fully resolved.

Chad and its 10m people still bump along near the very bottom of most international indices of development and poverty reduction.

While developed countries bump along with little growth, China's gross domestic product is expected to increase by 9.2 percent in 2011 and an equally astonishing 8.5 percent next year.

At the same time, stocks of some major banks bump along at penny-stock levels because investors know that several are effectively insolvent without another multibillion-dollar bailout from the government.

If it didn't start with the sound of a carbonated drink being poured into a glass, or bump along on little shards of digital ice, "Middle" could be a perfectly middling soul-pop hit.

They could bump along for many more years doing business as usual.

Without new, or seemingly new, products, luxury marques can't even bump along; they fade fast and sales plummet.

We bump along the main street and back.

It's going to bump along the bottom for some time.

It was simply a bump along the way.

Michael had a bump along the road, but he's going to be fine".

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