How to Use bleak in a Sentence

bleak

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• For many people looking for deals and good times to travel, the outlook is a bit more bleak.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
• The past two years have been bleak for cities across the country grappling with more gun violence and homicides.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• This ebullience, however, required keeping bleak thoughts at bay.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• But the budget details don’t match his rhetoric, and Exhibit A is the bleak outlook for the Navy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2022
• In an amusing way, his webcomic responds to the same events fans were experiencing at a time when everything seems so bleak.
  — Jake Tapper's Book Club, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
• Some recipients responded to the texts with anger and others with a sense of humor, but many agree that the messages seem to be a bleak foreshadowing.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
• In a note last week, Macquarie analysts predicted a bleak future for the company.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• Taylor wondered if Corcoran, like himself, goes back and forth between wanting to live in bleak conditions or hasten his own death to put an end to it.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2024
• Dimon reiterated his bleak long term outlook for the global economy in statements included in the earnings report.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2022
• On March 5, China revealed that severe flooding last year had delayed the planting of a third of the country’s wheat crop, and now the upcoming harvest looks bleak.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022
• Just shy of eight months since the Taliban took over and almost all international organizations pulled out of the country, the picture for ordinary Afghans is bleak.
  — Wazhma Frogh, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024