Sentence examples for a bleak one from inspiring English sources

Reading this eight-hundred-odd-page volume straight through is like being caught and held by the wrist by an imp or enchantress: Tinkerbell, on a lighthearted day; Ophelia, on a bleak one.

That was a bleak one.

If it's a true reflection of our society it's a bleak one.

God, it's a bleak one, though – no seam of colour or humour to brighten the mood.

It is only a small corner of the European refugee crisis, but it is a bleak one.

Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt was an eerie and disturbing film, a western, of sorts, and a bleak one.

As kids, Jose and Ricardo Ponce lived in a bleak one-bedroom apartment, shared by as many as 10 relatives at a time, on the west side of San Bernardino.

If she has a metaphysics, it's a very bleak one.

If this is a metaphor for marriage, it's a slyly bleak one.

The zoo itself is an elaborate technological accomplishment albeit, in my view, a rather bleak one.

Engraved are the words Fiona said to me in that interview, and which I know she meant: "Better to have had a really, really rich life, as I've had, than a long, bleak one".