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Example sentences for: bleak

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When it comes to international trade agreements, the conventional wisdom sounds most bleak.
But it is well worth a visit to the top (a short hike from the bus stop) to peer down into the bleak, barren crater emitting puffs of sulfurous fumes and contrasting starkly with the colorful vegetation all around it.
Indeed, rather than turning the future more bleak, the introduction and the widespread adoption of lean retailing by all participants in the retail-apparel-textile channel provides new opportunities for the textile and apparel industries, at least in some segments.
The Postman is about a drifter in the bleak and fractured America of 2013 who finds a bag of undelivered mail and, by posing as a letter carrier, rouses the populace to rise up against the evil Gen.
An obituary in the New York Times used the word cold three times, and for good measure added chilly , icy , bleak , and grim . Kubrick the Cold is a cliché that cropped up in the columns of Pauline Kael and now serves as a comfy sofa for those who don't want to deal with Kubrick's ambition.