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
McMurtry’s first novel, “Horseman, Pass By,” appeared in 1961 and laid down many of the ideas that he would revisit, especially the sprawling gap between the fantasy of the West and its bleak reality.
The strange dynamics of their friendship and the dark ironies of Mr. Boyson’s imagination build to an ending worthy of a Martin Scorsese picture: perfectly bleak and a little bit funny.
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
The sun was rising early Monday on another bleak day for markets.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
