How to Use dump on in a Sentence

dump on

verb
  • It’s all dumped on the new winner, who sits in a cart in the showers.
    — Shayna Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2026
  • There are up to three coolers with different flavors lined up for the players to grab and dump on their coach.
    — J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • What’s worse, much of the world’s garbage is mismanaged – dumped on land, in waterways and in open dumps in cities and towns.
    — Kate O'Neill, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Every neighborhood is important, even if it gets dumped on by the media.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Struggling with overburdened kennels, the group was in desperate need of help to assist a female dog found dumped on the side of the road.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Meghan Markle posted a new Instagram photo dump on June 9.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 9 June 2026
  • Cline also addressed her new look directly with a cheeky photo dump on Instagram last weekend.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Will the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach be lemon-lime, orange or another flavor altogether?
    — Brandon Funston, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Decentralized solution Raw waste cannot simply be dumped on fields due to the presence of pathogens and its high water content.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Because everything’s dumped on the conveyor belt, and then there’s another truck waiting behind it to dump its load, everything has to flow.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
  • Kylie Jenner is still in vacation mode after posting not one but two picturesque photo dumps on Instagram.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 6 Apr. 2026
  • His time as a Red Sox ended with a blockbuster trade to the Giants that, in time, is looking more like a salary dump on Boston’s end.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The actor plays Lou, brutally dumped on her wedding day and struggling to get by as a social media copywriter for a tortilla chip company.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Meteorologists were measuring in feet, not inches for this whopper, as more than three feet of snow were dumped on parts of Rhode Island.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Once stripped of its water, the regolith is dumped on the ground, so the RASSOR robot can scoop it up and haul it away.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Jessica Alba rocked disco curls and a backless zebra-print halter dress in a recent photo dump on Instagram.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The Hurst certified public accountant said he was all set to buy a vehicle from Grapevine Dodge when the additional costs were dumped on him.
    — Dave Lieber feb. 11, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Tamma, who is gay, is a roiling stew of adolescent emotions further fueled by physical abuse suffered in childhood at her father’s hands and by the neglect and disdain dumped on her by her mother.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Basically, Larry went through world history, dumping on every great invention.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 June 2026
  • Some of these have gone viral on social media, like the drone which was grabbed out of the air before being carried away and dumped on a mountainside at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • On June 3, the day after his 39th birthday, Koma shared a photo dump on Instagram featuring outtakes from their home life.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 21 June 2026
  • Skills coach John McLean, who doesn’t travel with the team, also went the airport and shoveled out the entire traveling party’s cars, no small task with the amount of snow dumped on the region.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • What to know to start your day Memphis-area school districts have already called off classes for Monday after several inches of snow, sleet and ice were dumped on the Mid-South.
    — Corinne S Kennedy, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Apple Martin shared a new photo dump on Instagram detailing her recent summer activities.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • Lurie proposed the program as a response to both vehicular homelessness and neighborhood concerns about RVs taking up parking and illegally dumping on city streets.
    — Lucy Hodgman, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Trump complained in his post about the condition of the grass and the sprinkler system for the public golf course, but debris from the demolition of the White House East Wing has also been dumped on the grounds.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Lawson was found dead, dumped on the southbound Route 295 entrance ramp from the Westport neighborhood, in January 2022.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Authorities seized more than 120,000 liters, or 31,700 gallons, of toxic chemical waste that the criminals usually dump on land or in streams.
    — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • An Arizona family is calling for change and demanding answers after a 27-year-old man died hours after he was wrongfully discharged from a hospital and dumped on a sidewalk during a hot summer day, according to a wrongful death lawsuit.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Several inches of rain were dumped on all corners of the commonwealth, with the highest totals falling on the southwest to central portion of the state, according to the National Weather Service in Louisville.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026

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