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Example sentences for: bleak

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Here and through the spot, she speaks directly to the camera, her earnest face and voice limning with hope the shots of an ailing elder and of single, bleak lines of text that bring the disease to life and the living room.
After years of hiding the river behind a bleak expanse of warehouses, factories, and railway tracks, Montréal has opened up its waterfront, more recently with the music festivals and flea market of the Vieux Port, but largely at the earlier instigation of that much maligned Mayor Drapeau.
At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.
Around the country, the picture is similarly bleak, said William Hornsby, staff counsel in the American Bar Association's division for legal services.
The figure is almost as bleak for middle -income Americans.