Example sentences for: depressing

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

  • It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."

  • The depressing cover story follows the struggle of two parents trying to save their toddler, a victim of Canavan disease.

  • Instead of sustaining the market, the aging-boomer factor will be depressing it.

  • Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.

  • "When one observes the depressing spectacle presented by American democracy today, one imagines that the man who talked best about it cannot be feeling very well in his heaven.


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