bleak

Example Sentences

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These are some of the places around Los Angeles that still keep his inner comics-nerd satiated and musical curiosity fed — no matter what bleak news is blowing up his phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

It is a thoroughly depressing and bleak conclusion to what is so often depicted as a time of expectation, of excitement even, and hope.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

It was bleak enough that the Christian college mulled closing down the basketball program, Haywood said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

There is a bleak sameness to their contents—desperate pleas to be spared as innocents, loyal to the party and wrongly accused.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The communities and schools from which they come fail to prepare them for the workforce, and once they have been labeled criminals, their job prospects are forever bleak.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander