Sentence examples for a dreary task from inspiring English sources
It becomes such a dreary task to fix someone's grammar, but if I know that student, if I know he was just dumped by his girlfriend yesterday and tonight he's getting a new tattoo, it's easier to write "comma splice" 30 times on a paper and not get mad.
I've yet to use it, although I was once tempted to on a drizzly day in the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia when I was tired of paddling down a dark canal and thought I might call a friend, not for a helicopter rescue, but to be saved from boredom and the dreary task of paddling when nature's legendary wonders were not on view.
"Instead of giving young people the impression that their task is to stand a dreary watch over the ancient values," writes Gardner, "we should be telling them the grim but bracing truth that it is their task to re-create those values continuously in their own behavior, facing the dilemmas and catastrophes of their own time".
But when you use it to gain something, you can wring pleasure out of the dreariest tasks.
BAGHDAD -- A sandstorm always makes a dreary Baghdad drearier.
Instead, a dreary ritual plays out.
Each had a dreary World Series.
The days took on a dreary rhythm.
