Sentence examples for To be dismal from inspiring English sources

"The employment situation continues to be dismal".

He said that "the employment situation continues to be dismal".

And what of the country's growth prospects, which analysts conventionally assume to be dismal?

That system hasn't changed, yet educational quality is now judged to be dismal.

But September is expected to be dismal, so a slight capacity reduction might not hurt the airline's revenue much.

"But we're braced, at this point, for a fairly soft earnings season, and it's not going to be dismal".

The stunted spring wheat crop in the family's fields will be dismal due to drought.

In reality the government's record on replacing homes sold under current right to buy is dismal.

Its response rates to chemotherapy are dismal and survival rates remain low despite modern interdisciplinary approaches.

Meanwhile, owing to its poor sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents, high metastatic potential, and resistance to traditional drugs, it is dismal to the overall prognosis of patients with HCC.

But history suggests that to get beaten by a rich novice, an incumbent has to be pretty dismal -- on a Lauch Faircloth level of dismal.