bleak

Example Sentences

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These are some of the places around Los Angeles that still keep his inner comics-nerd satiated and musical curiosity fed — no matter what bleak news is blowing up his phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The strange dynamics of their friendship and the dark ironies of Mr. Boyson’s imagination build to an ending worthy of a Martin Scorsese picture: perfectly bleak and a little bit funny.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It is a thoroughly depressing and bleak conclusion to what is so often depicted as a time of expectation, of excitement even, and hope.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

It was bleak enough that the Christian college mulled closing down the basketball program, Haywood said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

She sent one of them in her car to the bleak region where Famine dwells to order her to take possession of Erysichthon.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton