bummer

Example Sentences

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While owners can turn off the banner ads, doing so eliminates the widget altogether, a bummer for Brian Bosworth, a media-industry engineer who liked the feature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

It’s a bit of a bummer that ad blocking only works with Lightway.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

As Woody puts it in a bummer of a one-liner, “toys are for play, but tech is for everything.”

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

A bummer, but whatever—we didn’t want to pay the extra $100 each for the privilege.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025

Which shouldn’t have been a huge surprise, but it was still a bummer to sit down to my first breakfast at the mountain to his scowling face.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin