Sentence examples for collective slump from inspiring English sources

It ended with a detuned collective slump, as if to say the batteries were finally drained.

Payton said he did not regret not swinging at the first pitch, and he did not think the team's collective slump was pressuring individuals.

A rejigged South Africa team will take to the field at their Newlands stronghold on Saturday after a batting session with Graeme Smith which is hoped will address a collective slump in form and, perhaps, silence their former captain.

There are crowd or street sounds in "Azamane Tiliade," and some songs stop in a collective slump, with the sound of clapping, as if this were a party or a casual outdoor jam rather than a heavily considered shot at a worldwide audience.

There were signs in the A.L.C.S. that the offense is coming out of its collective slump -- Chuck Knoblauch is getting on base consistently, Derek Jeter is back to driving the ball to right field and through the middle, Bernie Williams had three hits in Game 6, and Scott Brosius has been a consistent force at the bottom of the lineup.

The position players, too, have been looking for ways to break out of their collective slumps.

These four players had combined for 93percentt of all starts in the No. 2 through No. 5 lineup spots; their collective slumps are the easiest explanation for how Washington's offense lost its claws.

The Yankees still haven't emerged from their collective offensive slump, and they need improvement from the likes of David Cone and Roger Clemens.

They are 6-6 on the homestand, and with a record of 35-28, they are two games behind Boston in the American League East, struggling to emerge from a collective offensive slump.

When then-Google boss Eric Schmidt said that the Nexus One was the end of Google's phone plans, fans of the "pure Google" experience everywhere bowed their heads, slumped their shoulders, and let out a collective sigh of sadness.

GRIDLOCK in Congress implies that there won't be any collective decision to spend more as a nation to get out of our slump.