drear

Example Sentences

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The design scheme of the production can be summed up as fluorescent drear, presumably to convey the grimness of Jamie’s school.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2022

I imagined the Lonely Mountains isolated by their own vastness and strangeness, their slow, cold hearts filled with a drear and incurable loneliness.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2018

In the gusty drear of the morning and then the breezy sunshine of midday amid the rude crosswinds near the Irish Sea, they shot their 65s.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2017

Hope’s mother brought up seven boys in drear, impoverished conditions.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

At the stream bank she sets out their drear picnic, which is only dense, crumbling bread daubed with crushed peanuts and slices of bitter plantain.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver