Sentence examples for becomes dreary from inspiring English sources

You know I think of these miserable years since the war and how everyone I know has been diminished by it, their rebellion tempered, their caution swollen to cowardice, their malice to hatred, until the worst of all is that I get close at times to thinking that perhaps we have overrated the possibilities of people, and then life becomes dreary indeed.

It soon became dreary and laboured.

But the debates became dreary popularity contests refereed by pundits obsessed with declaring an instant winner and loser.

In 1993 she left the soap, complaining that her character had become dreary, "living off her old reputation", but returned in 1997, and earns a reported £400,000 a year.

In the follow-up essay, "The Declining Function: A Post-Debutante Rejoices," published in the December 12th issue, Miss Mackay talked about how social gatherings organized around musical performances and cultural "lions" had also become dreary.

And the vaulting obviousness becomes so dreary that a real-life core shutdown seems like an act of mercy.

It becomes increasingly dreary and derivative – and ends in a way that suggests several more mind-numbing sequels will soon be washing over us.

The word Chernobyl also long ago became a dreary, shopworn joke, shorthand for contaminated wasteland.

While it could by my imagination, it seems to me that the short stories have become increasingly dreary.

The political landscape was shifting, and since the old one had become so dreary, the new one was bound to be an improvement.

Then someone decreed that every film should contain at least one puking scene, no one in the industry having noticed that what was once shocking and affecting has now become a dreary visual cliche.