Sentence examples for bleak streets from inspiring English sources

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As I walk the bleak streets of Miskolc, I scan the faces of passersby.

"How many five-star restaurants are there in Baghdad?" he asked as we drove in a convoy of Chevy Suburbans through the bleak streets and highways.

Many choices are in the $40 to $60 range, with maybe a dozen available by the glass, heartening fuel for a return to the bleak streets.

Dancing on the edge of sentimentality, the pictures last because of the calm, unprettied truth of the city — the bleak streets, the empty lots, the peeling signs, not picturesque but merely plain.

Dancing on the edge of sentimentality, the pictures last because of the calm, unprettied truth of the city the bleak streets, the empty lots, the peeling signs, not picturesque but merely plain.

But to Abdul Jabbar, 26, a chemist who grew up on the bleak streets of South Philadelphia, it is a place he can live in peace, pray and teach school.

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The final bleak street-corner montage in "Eclipse" is downright apocalyptic.

Only Carter could make all this live and breathe, and deliver Melanie from the grip of her lush adolescent dreams to the bleak street of her adult life.

She spends all her money on pet food, and every night around eight o'clock takes it to a bleak street of warehouses and factories, where she calls out, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty," as dozens of feral cats stream from the shadows.

The wind howls down a bleak street in Croatia's Borovo Naselje, lashing the rain against the garage door that Sinisa Mihajlovic's father had to replace every few weeks because of the force with which his son practised his free-kicks against it.

Poignantly, the bleak street scene from 1934 features a sign scrawled in scarlet letters in the foreground – "For Sale".

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