doldrums
Example Sentences
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Nine months on, the Vikings are in the doldrums of a disappointing season.
During the doldrums of early April, did you consider selling your equity portfolio to move to the sidelines and come back after the stock market had recovered?
From MarketWatch
Some bank employees have privately grumbled that his hobby performing as an electronic dance music D.J. is a distraction, especially with Goldman in the financial doldrums and laying off thousands of employees.
From New York Times
Ted is pretty quick to interpret Coach Beard’s “Pineapple Percussions” to be “doldrums.”
From New York Times
The central bank has kept interest rates at zero or in minus territory for years to wrest Japan out of its economic doldrums.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
