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Sentence count:198+14Posted:2017-01-08Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: barechillycolddismaldrearyAntonym: animatedSimilar words: tableaumalleablebleachingpeaksteakwreakfreaksneakMeaning: [bliːk]  adj. 1. offering little or no hope 2. providing no shelter or sustenance 3. unpleasantly cold and damp. 
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61 Myriad receptions and reunions could not disguise the bleak prospects for job hunters.
62 The situation in Ulster in 1985 was as bleak as ever.
63 To discipline your character is to ensure a bright destiny. To pamper your character is to invite a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 
64 If the manor was opulent, the old church was positively bleak.
65 Resorts that are glorious in mid-summer can be bleak and damp in winter as well as pretty dull when the tourist season is over.
66 As he reached the foot of the bleak stone steps, a single gunman opened fire from the parapet around the stairway.
67 It is her aim to rescue children from the bleak existences of orphanages and hospitals.
68 I looked at the bleak, eerie landscape nearing us, so utterly different from the comfortable London world of human construction.
69 Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett play two star-crossed lovers whose future looks bleak after they miss the chance to evacuate.
70 Sears Roebuck bucked the largely bleak holiday sales trend[sentencedict.com], reporting significant increases in apparel sales.
71 A memory came back to haunt him: the cold-blooded murder of a soldier on a bleak snow-covered hillside.
72 But other days are bleak; a cold, bloodless woman hovers nearby sneering derisively at me.
73 By the Seventies, ballpoints reigned supreme and, once schools allowed their use, the future for fountain pens looked bleak.
74 The current landscape of the site is bleak, suffering from the effects of intensive farming.
75 On occasion he found himself scanning the lake, throttling down as he passed bleak islands of rock and pine.
76 Prestatyn saw their title ambitions mauled by a bleak home defeat at the hands of St Asaph.
77 Never again would classrooms and indeed whole schools in the West Riding be the bleak, barren places of my boyhood.
78 Prospects of success looked bleak as the opposition scored the first two goals.
79 Prospects for silver were bleak as the year's downward trend looked set to continue.
80 After another mile, Chapel-le-Dale is reached,[http://sentencedict.com/bleak.html] an oasis of greenery in a bleak landscape.
81 Does Dickens, for example, overstep the limits of grammar in beginning Bleak House with a series of sentences without main verbs?
82 Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons.
83 And life for their male counterparts may be no less bleak.
84 Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
85 It was a bleak day when I received the letter, an overcast that would neither snow, rain, nor shine.
86 They say the airlift has brought new hope to people who would otherwise have faced a bleak future.
87 The future for the people of the Aral Sea looks bleak.
88 Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal.
89 Both works end on a possible return, on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state.
90 But, after a bleak opening, prices improved although trading was again thin.
More similar words: tableaumalleablebleachingpeaksteakwreakfreaksneakbreakspeakweakenstreakoutbreakspeak upspeakerbreak inbreak upbreak offspeak forbreak outbreak downbreakingbreak awaybreakdownso to speakto speak ofbreakfastpeaked capbreak intoleap
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