Example sentences for: drab

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

  • The drab unblinking question that presents itself is that "compilation" to which you refer, whose arrival, though unwelcome, is in no way resistible.

  • In the published piece, the editor, Kuttner, improved on my drab title, but also added a dreadful subtitle: "The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Income Distribution Controversy."

  • Today, 35 years after Wilson's jibe, it remains the drab wallpaper of the book world.

  • The second name, the (special) name, modesta , means modest in the sense of free from ostentation (Cynthia was struck by the moth's drab garb).

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?


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