dreariness

Example Sentences

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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

But although Friday in Washington seemed definitely damp, its daytime dreariness seemed curtailed by its quota of cherry blossoms and other early spring sights.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 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