Sentence examples for dismal encounter from inspiring English sources

It is 1980, the city is at its lowest ebb, and Hendricks is escaping a dismal encounter with a call girl.

In other words, the dismal encounters that we've heard about this week were not incidents of Cosby committing sex crimes but simply the stuff of mutual affection.

'Someone heard "Soul to Feet" and said, "Can you write seven or eight more like that one?"' she says, remembering one of the more dismal encounters.

This spring's college graduates face better job prospects than the dismal environment encountered by last year's grads.

But the existing snow coaches may be worse than the new snowmobiles in terms of noise and pollution, and they are a dismal experience -- you encounter nature only through fogged-up windows.

Their last encounter was a dismal one for the Dodgers and a historic evening for Fiers.

He couldn't choose just any swamp as his slough of despond: "dismal," a word he might have encountered in "Paradise Lost," had the right to-hell-and-back feel about it.

Ms. Francis's first encounter with the auto industry was dismal, and she never forgot it.

He has met dismal failures, but also known great successes, and encountered decent individuals committed to improving the world.

Rockwell's dismal experience with Admiral is representative of the difficulties other firms have encountered in their attempts to tap California's bustling weapons industry for commercial technology.

Not only is it the most frequently encountered electrolyte disorder, but it is increasingly recognized as a harbinger of dismal outcome in various conditions.