bleak

Example Sentences

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Camus’s vision may have been a bleak and arid one, but it retains its awful potency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The situation has felt particularly bleak in L.A.,

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 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

There is a bleak sameness to their contents—desperate pleas to be spared as innocents, loyal to the party and wrongly accused.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

So I was definitely in a bit of a funk, a bit of a bleak period, when I did the next stupid thing.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx