Sentence examples for sort of slump from inspiring English sources

That is the sort of slump that pushed high-street video-rental outfits into oblivion.

Now he is explaining that the team have fallen into some sort of slump because they are playing back-to-back Ashes, that they are a "bit mentally fragile" because they have been playing at such a high level of intensity for so long.

England's cricketers are also currently mired in the sort of slump that makes Lancaster's men look like glorious overachievers, stinking out their own World Cup a winter on from an Ashes whitewash so painful that those of us who watched it are still seeking therapy.

"I could hear these letters coming out and I sort of slumped over because these letters were nonsense letters," Ms. Sagarin said.

"They say stuff like that about all of us.' I said, 'Well, Tip, it's true.' And he sort of slumped in his chair and said, 'Oh, Barney, I'm so sad.

"But don't you find it hard, even with the mighty Smith, to avoid the sense that a mid-match retirement (not even mid-series, mid-MATCH) can only be a sort of slumped-shoulders-resigned-to-defeat-one-last-moment-in-the-spotlight-self-ahead-of-team decision?

"At one point he got out this container, and poured it out, and then sort of slumped over.

I sort of agree.

Does going through this sort of a slump renew his hunger or feed his anxiety, I wondered?

"He kind of slumped in his chair sometimes, just sort of looking back on the trial," Black recalled.

Four years ago in Beijing, all three were enduring the sort of miserable sporting slump that makes you want to sack it off and do something less capricious instead: Rutherford, nowhere and unnoticed in 10th; Farah, gone in the heats; Ennis, watching it all at home in Sheffield with her fractured right foot encased in plaster.