Sentence examples for slumped around from inspiring English sources

On a day when stock markets slumped around the world, though, Samsung Electronics shares fell 4.3percentto to 341,500 won ($294.48).

A graph documenting the last 150 years shows that wages slumped around 1860 before recovering to leave workers no better off by 1870.

Demand from the newly affluent, especially in Asia, is driving much of the rebound in the luxury industry after overall sales slumped around 8 percent in 2009, according to research by Bain & Company.

Apple stock fell back below $90 in early 2009, as shares slumped around the world, but quadrupled after that – thanks to a stream of record-breaking profits and impressive new launches, notably the iPad.

The writers of the highly successful CBS drama "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation" sat slumped around a table one afternoon this month at a studio in this quiet, mountainous region about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles.

The British company's share price has slumped around 40 percent since the creation of Verizon Wireless, and investors are eager to see a cut of the proceeds, especially since a sale would eliminate billions of dollars in dividends that the joint venture pays out every year.

She found companions for the other two, and three of the men and two of the women were snapped on Nan's mobile phone in a Middle East-themed bar in the resort where they smoked hookah pipes, slumped around a low table laden with drinks, including at least one bottle of beer.

He stuffed his initial portfolio with funds holding small stocks, value issues and overseas holdings; they had been superior performers over the long term but had slumped around the time the exercise began, and Mr. Rekenthaler thought they looked ripe for a rebound.

In the end, Herzog's men are dudes who just slump around, waiting for something to happen, and that's when she puts her topical playwright hat on.

There is an extended analogy between human beings and lobsters, based on the observation that male lobsters that have proven themselves dominant produce more serotonin; he suggests that when people "slump around," like weakling lobsters, they, too, will run short on serotonin, which will make them unhappy.

Don't waste your time slumping around and sorry for yourself.