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

On a pitch that gradually lost its green tinge under a sky that became increasingly leaden, England's deficiencies were laid bare in a familiar clatter of wickets.

From BBC

She gives her character juice and her scenes a palpable charge, a relief given Bill’s leaden reserve.

From New York Times

She couldn’t bring the full force of her serve to bear, and she moved as if on leaden legs.

From Washington Post