bleak

Example Sentences

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Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times

Sochi and Pyeongchang had their own problems, but the future of the Olympics looked especially bleak after the Beijing Games, staged inside a bubble sealed off from the city.

From The Wall Street Journal

The reading was a bleak number to start a year.

From Barron's

Still, recent layoff announcements and a pullback in job openings have created a more bleak labor market picture.

From The Wall Street Journal

We have arrived at this very bleak view of relations between men and women, like we see the world differently, we’re just always at odds.

From Los Angeles Times