Sentence examples for cold and dreary from inspiring English sources

Jan . 2dawned cold and dreary.

In Stillwater today, the mood was as cold and dreary as the rain soaking the streets.

On a cold and dreary day last winter, I met Roubini over lunch in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York City.

On a cold and dreary afternoon, I headed off to a destination I'd long avoided, to a farm that has been converted into a zoo.

IT was a cold and dreary May 12, the day that Katharine Hepburn would have turned 101, and a fine mist drifted across the big brick beachfront home where she had lived on Long Island Sound for most of her 96 years.

But I suppose England in general is often cold and dreary.

If ever a spirited encore was needed (and Purcell provides innumerable opportunities), it was here, on a night of celebration that, alas, turned out cold, rainy and dreary.

A cold, wet and dreary morning turned into a delightful afternoon for Boise State, which beat Iowa State, 34-16, in the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho.

This is complicated, but westerners have often dreamed of Asia as a zone of hedonism, he says, of guiltless liberation from the "cold, pinched and dreary climate of the Christian, especially Protestant, West" -- in other words, from the missionaries.

There followed long stretches of grey cliffs and barren snow-patched hills, sullen and dreary under a cold July sky, and broken only occasionally by clusters of colorful huts on the shoreline and distant flocks of seabirds.

Sometimes, I walk for two hours, or even three, and when I am finished, no matter how dreary and cold and blizzard-like it is outside, in my mind, it's a bright, sun-soaked summer day.