Example sentences for: drab

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

  • A story in the paper's "Style" section essays to compare the antagonists' cultures, claiming along the way that the DOJ has large, drab offices while MS has large, cheery offices.

  • In the wonderful A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman (circa 1658), carousers from his drab Rotterdam pictures have entered the finely nuanced space of his Delft interiors.

  • 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."

  • It's "drab, anonymous pop" (Robert Hilburn, the Los Angeles Times ) with a few Babyface-style R&B numbers thrown in for good measure.

  • As always, critics applaud Sayles' heartfelt liberalism and choice of offbeat subjects, which make him the "most restlessly independent independent filmmaker" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). But most critics say he "doesn't have a filmmaker's instinct" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). Except in Lone Star , they say, Sayles' dialogue is stilted and his cinematography drab.


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