Sentence examples for a bleak year from inspiring English sources

The bleak end of a bleak year cried out for sanity and rescue.

2013 looks set to be a bleak year for social workers.

As 2009 began, there was a firm consensus that it would be a bleak year for stocks, and it wasn't.

"For a liberal like Serling, that was a bleak year," Mr. Sander said, "and I think the program reflects that".

Despite a bleak year that even she described as "fraught with sorrow," the encounter seemed to be pro-Martha.

It's been a bleak year for British Muslims: terrorist atrocities abroad have led to increased suspicion and attacks on Muslim communities at home.

Since the beginning of time (1954, or when Elvis came along), there had never been a bleaker year for pop than 1982.

Like his fellow analysts, Richard Hyman, a retail consultant at Patel Miller, has no doubt that 2013 will be a bleaker year for the British high street than 2012 with more shops set to close.

Contemptuous Irresolution 2 February 2007 After the Senate's failure to do its job threatened scientists with a very bleak year ahead, Congress comes through with a last-minute reprieve.

Drive is one of trance music's few shining moments in an otherwise bleak year and a godsend for fans who had been without fresh, credible, progressive house to listen to.

Oddly, there are some rays of light in the PC market, a place in the technology world that has had a damningly bleak year.