How to Use bleak in a Sentence

bleak

adjective

• Not all the news in the park's report on the fires was bleak.
  — Fox News, 20 Nov. 2021
• In the short term, thinks look bleak for Biden and Democrats.
  — Eli Stokolsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• The palette is bleak, the costumes plain, the tone is clear.
  — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2020
• When Sitake first took the job, things looked bleak to some.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• Yet, while one side of the street is bleak, the other is chic.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
• Chubb got hurt on the Browns' next drive, and things looked bleak at first.
  — cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
• When things look bleak, do your best to stick with a plan.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• In short, the future looks bleak for the Nicaraguan people.
  — Alvaro Vargas Llosa, National Review, 27 June 2021
• But for all its brilliance, the work of Johns is bleak.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• Despite the bleak findings of the study, not all hope is lost.
  — Fox News, 4 Mar. 2020
• But appeals are rarely granted, and the end of the road is bleak.
  — Lara Bazelon, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• The good news is that the bleakest forecasts are too gloomy.
  — Jan Mischke, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• Mental health for teenagers across the board was bleak.
  — Joe Silverstein, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The current state of the world right now is pretty bleak in a lot of ways.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
• A few weeks ago, the sky looked bleak for the Missouri football.
  — Alex Schiffer, kansascity, 30 Oct. 2017
• But, boy, things sure looked bleak for the Jayhawks as the first half wound down.
  — Eddie Pells, ajc, 5 Apr. 2022
• Though the events that inspired his work are bleak, there’s still traces of hope in the songs and film.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Feb. 2018
• And their predictions for the health of the planet are bleak.
  — Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• Despite the win, Lee knows that long-term prospects are bleak.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• On a cold, wet afternoon this week, the mood in the bread line was bleak.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• There was an overhang of dread and fear over the bleak future in front of us.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• These bleak, blazing days in the country are a result of the first.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• But the prospects for a five-year extension seem bleak.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• But for Jonathan Aguero, a 32-year-old, the future has looked bleak for quite some time now.
  — David Feliba, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Wyeth made this one in 1991, the land cracked and contoured in bleak, ashen white, the sky a pale stain of dun gray-blue.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• The world seems bleak to many of us who are self-quarantined.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2020
• And his predictions for the long-term fate of the Trumpified G.O.P. are bleak.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• The club had scored six goals through seven matches and the outlook for the rest of the season to come was bleak.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2023
• Your past albums have gone into that mode, but the back half of Slipping Away is very bleak and heavy.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• So the electricity grid has collapsed, winter looms without heat, the population is fleeing abroad and things look bleak for Ukraine.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024