leaden

Example Sentences

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“The prose style is leaden, but so was Theodore Dreiser’s,” Carolyn See wrote in The Washington Post about the saga.

From Washington Post

DeSantis’s attempts at soaring rhetoric are mostly too leaden to get off the ground.

From New York Times

Only 22 when he died in 1783, Byrne spent his last days arranging for his friends to thwart the surgeon by burying him at sea in a leaden coffin.

From Washington Post

But late last year, the Federal Highway Administration responded to New Jersey’s efforts at humor with a leaden warning, asking that it “cease and desist.”

From Washington Post

They had willing runners late in the game, were on their toes as Kilmarnock became leaden, and were only denied a much more convincing scoreline by Walker.

From BBC