Sentence examples for bleak areas from inspiring English sources

Most of the agricultural waterside villages incorporated by the city have been eliminated to make room for expanding, if somewhat bleak, areas of docks, industrial sites, and railway yards.

And I like bleakness, because I grew up in a bleak area," he said.

This is still a bleak area for too many new dealers.

Mr Tyson's supporters include Jimmy Wray, Labour MP for a bleak area and a bit of a street-fighter in his youth.

To upgrade the bleak area, "I needed Woodward's and 200 units of social housing," recalled Mr. Green, who is now a consultant.

Thirty years ago, the property that makes up the Capital Center District was a bleak area where commuters could park their cars for as little as $3.50 a day.

A similar commitment was crucial to Spinnaker Real Estate Partners' redevelopment efforts in South Norwalk, where officials conceived an urban renewal plan for a formerly bleak area well before the term smart growth caught hold.

And as in Get Carter, which has been referred to a couple of times recently (the "are you naked" exchange over the phone a few minutes ago), we find ourselves on top of a commercial building in a fairly bleak area.

It is a bleak area with just a bar by the crossroads.

It was a bleak area of economic ruin with little hope of a better life for any child living within its radius.

GAZA, 26 January 2005 - The family of three-year-old Rahma Ibrahim abu Shamas ekes out a miserable existence in a bleak area of the central Gaza Strip known as al-Birka.