Batting woes

Usage examples of slumps.

Pain follows pain, with one interlude of joy, and, after what seems an endless night, Dorrin slumps against the fence.

He slumps against the table, taking a deep wracking breath, then another.

He crosses the kitchen and slumps into the chair at the end of the table, knowing that he should either return to the smithy or ride over to see Yarrl about the caltrops.

The wave of whiteness from the devastation strikes him, and he slumps to the bottom of the trench under his own darkness, darkness propelled with a white agony that slams at his skull.

The second tries to draw his sword but Makri guts him and he slumps dead to the ground.

I watch with horror as a body slumps forward to lie sprawled at my feet.

Blood spurts from Isuas's forehead and she slumps forward on to the grass.

The smell of paint and turpentine usually spurs him to start work again, but on this day he slumps on the bed, his body shaping itself to the familiar hollow of the mattress.

Mackintosh bangs the door closed and slumps on a seat opposite Jeremy.

The thought so depresses him that he puts on the radio and slumps into an armchair to lose himself in the music of Louis Jordan.

Her head slumps onto her arms, tears and blood and glass mixing as shudders take her body.

Then, feeling the haze closing in around him, he slumps painfully to his knees and takes up a push-up position.

He slumps back against the wall, staring at the end of the broken paper clip, now jammed in the lock.