Sentence examples for bleak grey from inspiring English sources

It's bleak, grey and raining – the prevailing wind is so strong that I can hardly think.

In the 1960s huge piles of fly ash waste from coal fired power stations were dumped in pits along the Thames estuary, leaving a bleak, grey, landscape.

Bleak grey terraces have sprouted gardens, and music and markets enhance a new riverside walk from Vauxhall to Tate Modern (where a rather unpleasant 20-foot anatomical sculpture by Damien Hirst now greets visitors approaching the museum).

The text is very open to interpretation: why Kansas is painted as such a bleak grey place Dorothy wants to vacate, but as soon as she arrives in Oz, the whole actual journey is her wanting to return home.

But think about it – would you feel happier against a skyline of bleak, grey blocks or somewhere like Barcelona, where the architectural imagination of Antoni Gaudí created a city that feels like a dream?

It was a typical Kentish day: bleak, grey, chilly.

Long abandoned by the Royal Air Force, it was already bleak and grey.

A wall of greenery can bring to life a bleak courtyard, grey street or cold modern building, as shown in a new book, Vertical Gardens (Thames & Hudson).

Nanny (as I discover later) is suggesting a glass of sherry, and I suppose my mother's feeling, "Well, why not?" Everything's still rationed, it's true, England's still bleak and grey.

The mist thins on the drive down: in place of rolling green there is bleak, sheer grey; the forests beneath are of hardy, pointed pine.

With his passion for opera and fondness for booze, he had a touch of Morse to him, but only if Morse were removed from the cosy confines of Oxford and placed in a bleak, greenish-grey Swedish landscape.