dreariness

Example Sentences

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There was nothing thriving, either, in the Voorstad neighborhood of Deventer, in the Netherlands, where in 2013 two bummed-out middle-aged men were sitting on their stoops, bemoaning the dreariness around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Despite their dreariness as a couple, Janet does come armed with a stare so blank it looks like she saw a ghost and never recovered.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2025

The dreariness of “May gray” hangs in the air, but soon enough people will be turning on their fans to fend off the heat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024

Many welcomed an opportunity to connect with other inmates, to escape detention’s dreariness and to brush off the stigma of prison, as public opinion and politicians in France take an increasingly hard line on incarceration.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

From these he quoted in part: “Does the whole structure cause an ‘iciness, a sickening of the heart, a dreariness of thought’?

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury