How to Use dismal in a Sentence

dismal

adjective

• The team's record is dismal.
• The show was a dismal failure.
• This bill binds them tighter to the president and his dismal poll numbers.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• Even President Biden’s dismal job approval ratings have shown a small uptick.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Arizona voters have a dismal view of the economy, where the country is headed and even their own lives, according to several polls released in the past week.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
• Intel reported dismal quarterly results last month and slashed its outlook for the rest of the year amid rapidly cooling PC demand.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022
• After investing time and effort into developing mining sites, the return was, in most cases, pretty dismal.
  — Zachary Petit, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2022
• Bo Nix made some dismal throws that will stick with Ducks fans, notably the two first-half interceptions that killed any hope of the Ducks hanging with the Bulldogs.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2022
• Shares of Snap took a major tumble last month, after the company reported dismal sales growth and warned investors that the economy had worsened at a faster pace than expected.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
• The crisis-prone bank named a new chief executive officer and strategy on Wednesday, alongside dismal second-quarter results.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• While retail traders have been fueling the surge in Bed Bath & Beyond shares, the company’s fundamentals remain dismal.
  — Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022
• Green Bay’s defense was dismal — to say the least — in the first half.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• On my last day in town, King takes me for a drive through the east end’s dismal sprawl.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• At this time last year, the market approached the end of a dismal 2022.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2023
• May might have been joking, but such is the extent of the A’s dismal start.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
• Over the last 20 years, stock pickers have had a dismal record.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Eugene came in at rank 74 and Salem came in at a dismal 98th.
  — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
• In the dismal science, this is what counts as good news.
  — Christopher Decker, The Conversation, 15 May 2024
• And the zero there isn’t the only dismal data on the Cards’ chart.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2022
• The Packers closed the season 1-5-1 in a dismal slide that cost them a playoff spot.
  — Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• All in all, things are off to a promisingly dismal start.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Across Greece, anger grew over the country’s dismal rail safety record.
  — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• But Alvarez proved to be more than ready for the big leagues and Narvaez’s defense was dismal.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
• Busch’s woes Kyle Busch’s dismal day ended with his Chevy getting towed off the track.
  — Dan Gelston, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• But even by those more modest standards, this has been a dismal start.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• There are two ways of looking at these dismal lamb numbers.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 8 June 2023
• Certainly no one needs a recurrence of the dismal events of 2020.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• The fact that lecanemab stands out as a bright spot speaks to how dismal much of the history of research on treatments for Alzheimer’s has been.
  — John Rennie, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Brandon Miller He’s been one of a few bright spots in the otherwise dismal season for the Hornets.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
• Women hold 28 percent of seats in Congress — a U.S. record, but a dismal showing compared to much of the world.
  — David Agren, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024