Sentence examples for a cheerless place from inspiring English sources

It was a cheerless place at that time in the morning.

Once a cheerless place with a few scruffy benches and an expanse of dirt, it is now the site of a leafy beer garden where people congregate after work, engaging in easy conversation as the daylight stretches far into the evening.

Cheerful Securities, a tiny Hong Kong brokerage, was a cheerless place at the height of the region's financial typhoon.

AFTER years spent basking in the sun of booming sales, makers of personal computers are finding their industry to be a cold, cheerless place.

I went on a barge-like "floating restaurant," an empty, cheerless place on the banks of the Ben Tre River.

It is disheartening to be served such a thing, in such a cheerless space, hemmed in by dark wood paneling from the '70s that no one wishes back.

It was a cold and cheerless place of offices, of people who worked in the day and went home to somewhere else at night.

Contemporary accounts paint the domicile, which Napoleon shared with his courtiers, their families, several servants, his doctor and the British orderly officer assigned to observe him, as a damp and cheerless place crawling with mold and festooned with cobwebs that his servants camouflaged by hanging fabric and paper on the walls and ceilings.

AMENITIES All the standard high-tech offerings — high-speed wireless access, DVD/CD players — are provided in guest rooms, but the gym (situated off the pool area) is a disappointingly small and cheerless place.

At the government's principal rehabilitation center, 40 of the 62 inpatients are infected with H.I.V. Talk to some of the current and reformed addicts at that center, a tidy, but rundown and cheerless place, and those numbers do not seem so outlandish.

It's a cheerless but intriguing place.