Sentence examples for dismal doing from inspiring English sources

Vurnon Anita has not yet settled into the Premier League while Cheikh Tiote was dismal, doing almost nothing right all night.

How times change: dismal does not even scratch the surface.

Sounds pretty dismal, doesn't it?

But Mr Osborne's fit of the dismals did not stop Theresa Villiers, the party's transport secretary, from promising on the same day that a Tory government would scrap proposals for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport and spend £15.6 billion to build a French-style high-speed rail line connecting London and Leeds via Birmingham and Manchester by 2027.

Treatment programs have success rates that are only comparatively less dismal than doing nothing.

And as you just said, dismal decade doesn't mean the next couple of decades are going to be dismal.

Given that dismal experience, do today's rising oil prices mean that we're doomed?

But the dismal loss did not erase the Jets' playoff hopes.

And in 1998, only 24 of the 181 registered voters, a dismal 13.3percentt, did so.

That dismal frame didn't affect the game's decisive final result, but the Spurs won't always be playing against opponents so accommodating of such lulls.

Indeed, in the words of the first powerful hymn we sang: "Who so beset him round with dismal stories, do but themselves confound — his strength the more is.