BUM in a Sentence

Learn BUM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for BUM, such as:

1. He was probably bumming his way home.
2. We are bumming along the road nicely.
3. A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
4. He gave us bum directions, but we eventually found the place.
5. My gang were a great bunch for bumming around and raising Cain.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUM
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bum
 n.  one who is devoted to a particular activity; murmuring or humming sound; lazy or shiftless person
Classic Sentence:
1  Pete, here's the one honest-to-God lady in my bum town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Just a bum club that some of us got up in Minneapolis when I was working there.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  He was probably bumming his way home.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  My gang were a great bunch for bumming around and raising Cain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  He gave us bum directions, but we eventually found the place.
2  A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.
3  We are bumming along the road nicely.