Example sentences for: dreary

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

  • But they tend to fall into one of three dreary categories: pathetic pseudo-macho western (e.g.

  • ("[W]hen she does a wobbly fall in a tight skirt and heels, it's like the moment in Bambi when the little deer fumbles and skitters across a patch of ice," says Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly .) Or is the show dreary and cliché-ridden?

  • She "put life back into a dreary over-intellectual magazine that was little read and even less talked about," it said.

  • The Times headed its anti-French editorial Wednesday with the kind of dreary play on words that Fleet Street currently finds irresistible.

  • The Seattle Scandinavians were ersatz Norsemen, blond socialists who thought the basis of civilization was an upper tax rate of 90 percent, dreary porno movies, and their all-purpose greeting "uff da," which, translated, means, "I've fallen from grace and I can't get up."


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