bleak

Example Sentences

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While the federal government was a drag on growth, and the rest of the fixed investment picture looked bleak, AI stood out in the GDP report.

From Barron's

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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