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Example sentences for: dreary

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

Sarah, you're right--the actors are keeping pace with the filmmakers, daring to leave dreary realism (and other misapplications of the Method) behind.
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.
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
Nobody minded much as long as somebody else was paying the bill (true, the economists warned in their dreary way that costly benefits get shifted back to workers in the form of lower wages, but who listens to them?)
Man, they should have killed off Livia when they had the chance, and that way they wouldn't have to saddle us with her dreary daughter.