Example sentences for: dreary

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

  • What a dreary prospect!"

  • Still, I have a soft spot for all those dreary Lon Chaney Jr. sequels that ended with the lurching, half-blind golem lugging a slack blonde through the swamps while George Zucco in a turban hisses something like, "Faster, Kharis!

  • Now Meriwether and his multimillionaire troops are back where they started--sentenced to work for a piteous $250,000 at conventionally dreary Wall Street firms.

  • Two dropped letters, and we've reached the ludicrously boastful, like the lyrics to some dreary rap: "HE'S HUGE, HE'S POWERFUL, HE'S FAST AND HE'S ME."

  • The term "slice of life" has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.


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