Sentence examples for but drab from inspiring English sources

But drab reality must be faced.

The compact building where I would be both staying and working was clean but drab.

It occupies an ugly edifice, but is anything but drab on the inside.

Even their traditional but drab tan and brown habits of the order of St. Jerome can prompt amusement.

Lacking perspicacity, she failed to understand that, in France, kings' wives were supposed to be as peahens to the gaudy peacock husband; elegant, but drab and unshowy.

But the Saint Laurent collection seemed to deny pleasure with an almost spinsterish disapproval registered in white cotton blouses and chic but drab gray pencil skirts.

But being drab does not mean this Mrs. Alving is boring.

But many drab 1960s offices in suburban locations have also been revamped into studios and apartments.

But the drab office environment and sepia tone suggest somewhere in deepest provincial west Germany.

But this drab monolith houses an electronic-commerce experiment that, in its own way, is every bit as significant.

Transparency is emerging as a trend, but the drab colors were a downer, and the straight-cut shapes of the nylon were timid to a fault.