Example Sentences

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The headline on Kareem’s Substack column — “Winning Time” Isn’t Just Deliberately Dishonest, It’s Drearily Dull” — may not have been the death knell for the show, as it’s returning for a second season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Drearily familiar too are the concerns they’re deployed to elucidate.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2018

Drearily I wound my way downstairs: I knew what I had to do, and I did it mechanically.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Drearily the animals on the nursery wall looked down on Mrs. Montague.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Drearily I congratulated myself, and tried to find comfort in the thought that, at all events, I should not be obliged to recommence my battle with the world entirely penniless.

From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose