bleak

Example Sentences

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The situation has felt particularly bleak in L.A.,

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Declining crime rates, return-to-office mandates and a boom in artificial intelligence hiring have helped the city emerge from a bleak period during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Separated from the Premier League's relegation zone only on goal difference and on their fourth manager of the season, things have been fairly bleak at the City Ground.

From BBC • 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 ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy