How to Use doldrums in a Sentence

doldrums

plural noun
  • The turmoil has eased, but bank stocks are still in the doldrums.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The plan was to bring the team out of the doldrums of the 50s.
    — Bill Dow, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2020
  • What to do when the doldrums of midwinter stretch on and on (and on)?
    — Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
  • The luxury brand may be in the doldrums sales-wise, but the pair were all smiles.
    — Booth Moore, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Their shares were in the doldrums around this time last year, when global commerce ground to a halt.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Running spared me and many others from bobbing in the doldrums.
    — Mark Naida, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Labour looks certain to be in the doldrums for a long time (see Bagehot).
    — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
  • And in the doldrums of winter, nothing could be more helpful.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 1 Feb. 2018
  • January is a month when many people— me included- are in the doldrums.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Break up the winter doldrums with a suit inspired by the '70s.
    — Kristina Rutkowski, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Even in the doldrums of winter, restaurants make their debuts.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Hedge funds have been in the doldrums and face mounting pressure to justify their fees.
    — Taylor Hall, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • His doldrums will embrace and and absorb your own; his voice will bring you succor from below.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But when the doldrums of everyday life set in, think about creating again.
    — Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 16 June 2019
  • In fairness, this team has far too much talent, and young talent at that, to be mired in the doldrums for too long.
    — Kellen Becoats, SI.com, 17 June 2019
  • The Hong Kong film industry has been in the doldrums for much of the past two years.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The summer doldrums hang on, with the air feeling stagnant and sticky and hardly a breeze to cool us off.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps that will give fans a little bit of hope that the national team’s doldrums won’t last too long.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The improving outlook has lifted bank stocks out of the doldrums.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
  • All of that merely is the game before the game, filling the August doldrums.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The stock market might be in the doldrums, but the biotechnology index has fallen off a cliff.
    — David Wainer, WSJ, 30 June 2022
  • This was in the early 1980s, and the industry was in the doldrums.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2013
  • And boarding a vintage train during the cooler months is the perfect cure for the winter doldrums.
    — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Things could change in a big way over the next few days as earnings season starts and Wall Street shakes off its spring doldrums.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The overriding sense on Monday was of fresh momentum for a club that has spent too long in the doldrums.
    — Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The milestone — unimportant, of course, in the grand scheme of things — serves as a minor morale boost amid the doldrums of winter.
    — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2022
  • And stay alert by visiting a Lavazza tent for a creamy, earthy cold brew to lift you from the afternoon doldrums.
    — Cathy Erway, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And not by accident, its stock, long in the doldrums, went on a tear as the New Microsoft emerged.
    — Kevin Werbach, Philly.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • For those who’d managed to wrangle tickets, though, the game offered, at the very least, a three-hour escape from the doldrums of the past year.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • But, by the end of the game, the offense was back in the doldrums, with 14 of the final 15 hitters going down.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2021

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