(n. pl.) A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.
Example Sentences:
(1) It might sound like chump change, but the PTC alone amounts to $1 billion a year, and industry advocates insist that wind would hit the doldrums without these subsidies.
(2) Labour is in the doldrums and we have to ask ourselves why.
(3) With rates in the doldrums, the news last week that inflation has reached its highest point in the past two-and-a-half years means many cash savers are now losing money in real terms.
(4) It does feel like British chocolate is making a renaissance after being in the doldrums for a few decades.” As well as its network of shops, Hotel Chocolat owns a cocoa plantation on St Lucia, which is home to a luxury hotel where a two-week stay costs up to £10,000.
(5) The pound foolishness of the coalition's efforts becomes even clearer when set against its hope that our legal services market can lead the UK out of current economic doldrums.
(6) Housing market activity remains stuck in the doldrums, which seems highly likely to maintain downward pressure on prices in the early months of 2011 at least.
(7) But if the Tories are split, the pro-EU Lib Dems are back in the invisibility zone and Labour is equivocal, it’s easy to see how the Brexit camp might win the day if the economy is again in the doldrums by 2017.
(8) Those efforts, combined with better management and improved stock control, have lifted the company out of the doldrums.
(9) For all the optimism and green shoots of recovery after years in the doldrums, the old guard, no matter how minimal their impact on the pitch in France, deserve praise as they leave.
(10) So far Fox’s fawning coverage of Trump, and in some cases total avoidance of certain topics unflattering to the president, hasn’t been enough to lift him out of his presidential doldrums.
(11) He did a good job of helping Manchester City and Sheffield United out of the doldrums, but perhaps unwisely left the former when a return to Everton became possible, explaining at the time that City felt like an affair whereas Everton was a marriage.
(12) More hot acts coming out of the Montreal music scene Doldrums Airick Woodhead AKA Doldrums is Grimes's brother from another mother.
(13) On the other side of the equation, those who share Mr Carney's desire to flee the economic doldrums should ask why the Bank's target is only 7%, rather than 6% or lower.
(14) I’m not sure where we are on the chart, or when the next comedy doldrums is, but he’ll tell you, and what will rise to take its place.
(15) So far this year, 40 companies have raised £5.7bn after the market for new shares went into overdrive following years in the doldrums, figures supplied by Thomson Reuters show.
(16) Despite increasing police crackdowns, yakuza membership is rising amid richer pickings from extortion, prostitution, drug smuggling, property deals and even stock market transactions as the Japanese economy emerges from the doldrums.
(17) Prices have now increased by 8.6%, or £13,000, since January 2009, when the housing market was in the doldrums, and the society said that unless they fall next month, the annual rate of house price inflation would return to double figures for the first time since May 2007.
(18) Business lending remains in the doldrums despite the economic recovery after the Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) recorded another poor performance in the second quarter.
(19) Having only recently engaged with the care sector in our role as brand consultants to the National Skills Academy for Social Care , we have a few thoughts on how social care might begin to climb its way out of the doldrums.
(20) For anyone seeking out an archetype for Doldrums Britain, Corby has much to offer, at first glance at least.
Tedium
Definition:
(n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) After about half an hour, we were positively praying for a major pile-up just to relieve the tedium.
(2) He loved the excitement and the glitter of his post, but could never really accept the hours of drudgery and tedium that the job of Liberal leader involved.
(3) Lineker points out that the accusations of tedium are at odds with the basic tone and tempo.
(4) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(5) Introduction of computers and image analysis systems are gaining faster momentum in order to quantitate the assessment of cells for diagnosis and prognosis, and this system aims to relieve the operator from the tedium of microscopic observation and reduce operator bias and human error.
(6) Whatever door of perception that pill is machine-gunning off its hinges, blathering on about the experience through clenched teeth is tedium squared to anyone sober.
(7) So what was he thinking to give up his former life for the tedium of the backbenches?
(8) Rob and co are casting around for a future – and, more immediately, for ways to kill the tedium of the present: sex, drugs, diving into silos filled with wheat grain and getting pulled out on the point of suffocation, that sort of thing.
(9) 9.06am GMT 35 min: This match has reached almost Osieck-levels of tedium.
(10) Both men spend 24 hours a day in their mosquito-infested cells, sleeping on the floor with no books or writing materials to break the soul-destroying tedium.
(11) Batty said court orders did not offer sufficient protection to women and children affected by domestic violence, and the court system typically saw family violence “as a tedium in their workload”.
(12) The duration, monotony and repetition entailed in the reading of each file echoes the normalisation of the violence and tedium endured by refugees in indefinite detention,” she said.
(13) An important advantage of the procedure is that the normally tedious calculations involved with distortions have been computerized, thus eliminating the tedium of repeated calculations.
(14) It will, say scientists, provide invaluable data on how a crew would cope with the difficulties and inevitable tedium of long-duration space flight.
(15) That's how it often operates in the US – long stretches of tedium interrupted by the odd spark of conflict.
(16) 5.28pm BST 27 min : A lovely reverse flick from Pirlo relieves the tedium.
(17) This new approach avoids the tedium, time and expense involved in the widely used saliva hemagglutination inhibition assay.
(18) On day six you take one look at the menu and stab yourself in the eye with a fork BECAUSE YOU CAN'T TAKE THE SODDING TEDIUM ANY MORE.
(19) However, ergometric studies in this regard have been hampered by the tedium of physiologic data collection and analysis.
(20) Some people thrive on strife and stress, while others prefer total tedium.