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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:

The secret rooms upstairs, where the family spent the daylight hours, are stark and bleak.
This was the same man whom I had described in my July Esquire piece as "one bright spot in an otherwise bleak conservative landscape."
Despite this bleak picture, the state's civil justice community has taken significant steps to close the gap between need and services in the past five years:
In , O'Shea and Madigan paint a bleak picture of corporations dazzled by snake-oil salesmen operating with "a blind and sometimes fatal certainty," and of long-term financial health sacrificed to short-term thinking.
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.