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Example sentences for: dismal

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And even nowier, it means Dutch auction, which has dismal connotations, but so does everything with a Netherlandish prefix--Dutch treat, Dutch courage, Dutch Schultz.
As the House managers open the prosecution of the president today, the real obstacle they face is not the absence of witnesses or the dismal poll numbers.
Many city names express hope, as in New Hope , and New Freedom , Pennsylvania, New Era , Michigan, and the dozens of cities named Paradise . Once in a while, however, a place gets a dysphemistic name, such as the Badlands in South Dakota, or Great Dismal Swamp , which is a 1500-square-mile section of Virginia and North Carolina.
Van Gogh the preacher's son, born in a dismal town in Holland in 1853 and dead of a self-inflicted pistol shot to the chest 37 years later, never stayed put.
About half the essays originated in Paul's "Dismal Science" column for