drear
Example Sentences
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The day is drear, the music ominous — and with good reason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
I imagined the Lonely Mountains isolated by their own vastness and strangeness, their slow, cold hearts filled with a drear and incurable loneliness.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2018
In the gusty drear of the morning and then the breezy sunshine of midday amid the rude crosswinds near the Irish Sea, they shot their 65s.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2017
Hope’s mother brought up seven boys in drear, impoverished conditions.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
To them I am only Adah or, to my sisters sometimes, the drear monosyllabic Ade, lemonade, Band-Aid, frayed blockade, switchblade renegade, call a spade a spade.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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