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Example sentences for: dismal

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It's not necessary to see these films to know how dismal they are, because they are reiterations of other bad films.
Roqueta is in the process of gaining national status as a protected nature reserve, but today, is only the site of a rather small, dismal zoo with claims that it is the world’s only zoo on an island — however, it’s not worth disembarking to visit.
The dismal spin: Bush looks less confident and more desperate for votes.
In Kipling's The Light That Failed (Chapter XIII), Torpenhow urges Dick to attend a party that night, “We shall be half screwed before the morning,” is his dismal sales pitch to Dick.
Looked at another way, patients with heart, liver, lung, or kidney failure have a dismal prognosis for survival, so the toxicity associated with immunosuppression is warranted (the benefits of graft survival outweigh the risks associated with the medications).