Sentence examples for became bleak from inspiring English sources

But the situation soon became bleak.

In other words, Mr. Bush might be willing to use Social Security revenues to pay for more tax cuts if the economic situation became bleak enough.

When his father died one and a half years ago, his family's economic situation became bleak.

By the l970s Mortimer's novels became bleaker.

As the night wore on, Mr. Haq's plight became bleaker.

The band's music became bleaker, more gnarled and more elaborate.

After Crater Lake and Bend I turned east on Highway 20, passing an astonishing dwarf forest of whitebark pines before the road became bleaker and emptier and finally sought sanctuary in a long shallow canyon that burrowed its way into Idaho, emerging on Interstate 84, which took me south to Boise.

But over the past three years, a paper that had become bleak and intolerant has recovered much of its old verve.

As such, they've helped to exemplify an era when the more people obsess about their interiors, the more the exterior built environment becomes bleak and straggling.

And if she did not get married her life would probably become bleak and isolated — she would lose out on promotions to men (who needed them more, since they had families to support).

Also flowing from the shareholder supremacy principle is the expectation that when economic outlook become bleak, the level of commitment to CSR may be one of the first to be sacrificed, seeing that direct tax and an elaborate legal framework protects royalties, whereas CSR is only 'beyond [legal] compliance.'.