leaden

Example Sentences

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“The prose style is leaden, but so was Theodore Dreiser’s,” Carolyn See wrote in The Washington Post about the saga.

From Washington Post

DeSantis’s attempts at soaring rhetoric are mostly too leaden to get off the ground.

From New York Times

She had already spent years seeing patients with symptoms and disabilities, from convulsions to leaden limbs, for which no clear biological cause could be found.

From Salon

Q: My wife and I have homes on Bainbridge Island and in Southern California, the latter being the one we flee to when Pacific Northwest skies turn leaden.

From Seattle Times

On a pitch that gradually lost its green tinge under a sky that became increasingly leaden, England's deficiencies were laid bare in a familiar clatter of wickets.

From BBC