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Example sentences for: bleak

How can you use “bleak” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Perhaps this picture seems a little bleak, but there is one positive factor that eases the concern about visiting Athens.
The figure is almost as bleak for middle -income Americans.
This is the cozy way to watch the park’s landscape change from dense lowland forest, through alpine meadows dotted with wild flowers, to the bleak tundra of the high country.
The words "bleak," "harsh," and "tough" show up in almost every review of Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx's collection of stories set in her adopted state of Wyoming.
Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.