bleak
Example Sentences
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Somehow the hero would have to make the rocks seem more dangerous, the reef more terrifying, the pale sands bleak and lonely—make the whole island seem like a creepy, scary place.
From Literature
As dark as the novel becomes, “the real darkness of the gulag there was so bleak that I had to cut it out,” the author has said.
In the past three decades, the picture has never looked so bleak.
From BBC
Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times
Sochi and Pyeongchang had their own problems, but the future of the Olympics looked especially bleak after the Beijing Games, staged inside a bubble sealed off from the city.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
