dreariness
Example Sentences
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But - despite his newfound fame - Hockney quit the dreariness of post-war England in search of Paradise.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
There was nothing thriving, either, in the Voorstad neighborhood of Deventer, in the Netherlands, where in 2013 two bummed-out middle-aged men were sitting on their stoops, bemoaning the dreariness around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Despite their dreariness as a couple, Janet does come armed with a stare so blank it looks like she saw a ghost and never recovered.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025
The Pogues may have sounded traditional, but their spirit was vulgar and vital, a bracing departure from the glitz of new wave and a needed counterpoint to the dreariness of the Thatcher era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Stendahl drank it in, the dreariness, the oppression, the fetid vapors, the whole “atmosphere,” so delicately contrived and fitted.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
