dreary
Example Sentences
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The exception to this dreary trend—the really wonderful bright spot that cheers both the reader’s and the author’s heart—are classical schools, where academic study is based on what Mr. Traub calls “beautiful content.”
An 11-6 regular season record couldn’t disguise a dreary team that played excellent defense but hardly moved the ball.
When Christine Moore followed her Yalie boyfriend to California, she walked off the plane, felt the sunshine, so unlike the dreary East Coast weather she left behind, and decided never to go back.
From Los Angeles Times
Roth paints a dreary portrait of how that scenario could have played out, but the horrors are resolved by something of a deus ex machina rather than by any one character’s bold, heroic actions.
From Los Angeles Times
“There’s definitely a very dreary mood on campus,” said a recent computer science graduate who asked not to be named so they could speak freely.
From Los Angeles Times
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