Example sentences for: depressingly

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

  • Of course, this is also the problem with the National Magazine Awards lunch, which has the additional problem of being, along with the White House Correspondents Dinner, the most depressingly Soviet-like assembly I have ever attended.

  • A group of researchers in Indonesia, for example, recently told a depressingly familiar story of trying to search the medical literature in preparation for a research project [2]; access barriers got in their way.

  • The Turkish earthquake of August 17 and its disastrously bungled relief effort--the official death toll now stands at 17,997 --is a depressingly familiar story.

  • While the vendor-to-vendor programme did seem to improve shops' knowledge and behaviour in a relatively short time, the gap between actual and desired performance was still depressingly large.

  • Travel is all about distinctiveness, but I bet that the table of contents for the Chicago book is depressingly identical to that of the Philadelphia and Toronto guides.


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