bleak

Example Sentences

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Camus’s vision may have been a bleak and arid one, but it retains its awful potency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

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

The weather has been bleak for a good number of us globally since 2026 dawned.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 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 future for us in Kraków looked bleak.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson