Sentence examples for almost bleak from inspiring English sources

The phrase "almost bleak" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that is nearly devoid of hope or positivity, but not entirely so.
Example: "The landscape was almost bleak, with its gray skies and barren trees, yet a hint of color from the distant flowers offered a glimmer of hope."
Alternatives: "nearly desolate" or "practically grim".

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On a winter's night, however, the room felt almost bleak.

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The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak.

But at times they feel almost as bleak.

The news from environmental organizations is almost always bleak.

And after a while, the dirt-colored landscape becomes almost unwatchably bleak.

The stores in Fond du Lac and Manitowoc were almost as bleak.

His opinion of the game itself was almost as bleak: "It's absolute madness".

The news from rural America, shrouded by the opiate crisis, has been almost unstintingly bleak.

Plenty to resolve as this well-performed, almost gratuitously bleak drama reaches its conclusion.

This is truthful, but almost unbearably bleak, and occasionally it seems a bit contrived -- a sermon, not a story.

Which might seem curious considering the novel is the almost unbearably bleak story of a young man destined for failure.

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