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But after becoming the musical-instrument retailer’s chief executive in 2023, he heard a common complaint from fellow musicians: Shopping there had become a drab experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Cinematographer Brandon Trost does an incredible job blending classic 2D animation into drab law offices and conference rooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Unless you’re Steven Spielberg, with enough money and success to have final-cut privilege, everything in a franchise blockbuster is bound to look flat, feel drab, and be nauseatingly overexplained.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

The milestone, made possible by billions in private and government funding, was on display in the middle of the Idaho desert, where a cluster of drab hangars might otherwise go unnoticed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

When you are lifting one drab and the other rises off the table, the one in your hand feels as heavy as if you’re lifting both, because, in fact, you are.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Unfortunately, the visuals suffer from many scratches and dirt specks popping up on the screen, and the second film has too much soft focus and a much drabber color palette.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

Take away one of those elements, and the scene gets a little drabber.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2020

The difference is that Mr. Pritchett’s world is enlivened by his cheerful embrace of eccentricity, while Mr. Trevor’s London is drabber, sadder, a place of widows and widowers, blighted romances, unraveling relationships.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2016

Honestly, could the premise for a feature-length story of middle-aged malaise and inchoate yearning be any drabber?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2015

One François Villon, scholar, poet, drinker, sworder, drabber, blabber, good at pen, point, and pitcher.

From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy

To which Forest fan Pete Bancroft replied: "I'll take the drabbest 1-0 win you've ever seen."

From BBC ● May 8, 2023

According to weather data analyzed by The Times, it really has been the drabbest winter Southern Californians have lived through recently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

A new study has found that botanists' research inexorably skews toward showy plants, whereas the drabbest, dullest and shortest are often left behind—even if they are endangered.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2021

Should he mention his belief that Beth was the drabbest diminutive of Elizabeth?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018

Naturally she was rather cheerful than somber, an involuntary gayety rose from her in the drabbest moments; she even defied Barzil Dunsack with ribbons and flowers on her bonnet.

From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer

The day I went through, the interminable, oblique, thin rain took the gold out of the wheat and the brown from the distant fields and bushes, and drabbed all the colours in the grass.

From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke

Our forefathers occasionally drabbed baulor; some of our people may still do such a thing, but only from compulsion.”

From The Romany Rye by George Henry Borrow

Our forefathers occasionally drabbed baulor, some of our people may still do such a thing, but only from compulsion.’

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by John Sampson

“That’s his way, child, to-day a tinker, to-morrow something else; and as for being drabbed, I don’t know what to say about it.” p.

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by William Knapp

But, as a rule, the pirate ruffled and bullied and drabbed without let or hindrance, until it was time for him to go back to his ship once more.

From The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Why, you have had a banquet of pork, and after the banquet Mrs. Chikno sang a song about drabbing baulor, so I naturally thought you might have lately been engaged in such a thing.’

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by John Sampson

“Why, you have had a banquet of pork, and after the banquet, Mrs. Chikno sang a song about drabbing baulor, so I naturally thought you might have lately been engaged in such a thing.”

From The Romany Rye by George Henry Borrow