dreary
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It's a hobby that started six years ago, when he went to Shetland to see the northern lights - though the weather was so dreary he "didn't see anything".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The novel follows Lila Dixon, an acerbic, cynical baseball scout living a dreary and closed-off life in her 30s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Wait, these aren’t the dreary, soul-sucking 76ers America was promised!
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Everything in “Mother Mary” feels like it exists in a dream within a dream: the tertiary characters who fade in and out of the narrative, the catchy yet indistinct pop songs, the dreary midnight-blue location.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
In the dimness of its dreary day few things even in that land of vigilance could have espied them, save from close at hand.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a drearier and less-plausible dream than Mr. Lindsey admits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Allen closed his essay emphasizing the significance of Keaton’s death: “A few days ago the world was a place that included Diane Keaton. Now it’s a world that does not. Hence it’s a drearier world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
He added that the world was now a "drearier" place without her in it.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
Once the game is afoot, though, “The Menu’s” soufflé starts to sag, with the plot becoming drearier in direct proportion to the body-horror jump scares.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
If Courtney and Jupiter take notice of my drearier demeanor post-field-trip-and-photo-discovery, neither lets on.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
And as an already sleep deprived, anxiety attack-prone person facing the darkest, dreariest season of the year, I figured it was worth a shot to try to nourish my way to a better attitude.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023
"The problem with Pixar's latest feature isn't just that it's the animation house's dullest, dreariest, most spiritually empty to date. It's that it fails even on its own painstakingly contrived open-goal terms."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022
After losing his bid for speaker, De León was stripped of his Appropriations chairmanship and relegated to one of the dreariest offices in the state Capitol.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2022
The experts at MLB.com are the dreariest I’ve found: They think Washington will only sign all-star reliever Brad Hand and all-star catcher James McCann.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2020
‘That’ll be a lot more fun than fiddling around with figures. I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth.’
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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