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Example sentences for: bleak

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The secret rooms upstairs, where the family spent the daylight hours, are stark and bleak.
The bleak black and white of the scene in the woman's office is relieved by a shot of yellow flowers, visible through the window.
Reduced by war and the Wall to a bleak no-man’s-land, the square that was at one time the busiest in Europe has burst back into life in the most invigorating fashion.
The figure is almost as bleak for middle -income Americans.
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.