Sentence examples for dismal room from inspiring English sources

The rent on a dismal room in Dawson, with a bathroom down the hall, has already gone up to 600 Canadian dollars a month, and the season hasn't started.

During a recent visit, the employees' lunch was splayed out on an exam table near a hardback chair where patients sit for their tests, in a dismal room where medical assistants give shots and take blood.

The Hotel Rachou has long since been converted into a four-star hotel – Singh says she was forbidden to take a group inside recently while leading a Beat walk – but visitors to the Pompidou will have their imaginations primed by an installation structured on contemporary pictures of Burroughs in his dismal room, some by Chapman, others by the Life magazine photographer Loomis Dean.

Once we reached our dismal room, we all sort of milled around in that vaguely awkward way people do before meetings or night classes.

We were shown dark, dismal rooms and told a number of dark, depressing stories about their inhabitants.

There's also a long hall, a tiny loo and a dismal shower room – and, most exciting of all, an under-stairs cupboard; I've always wanted one of those.

Jackie's military past explains, it turns out, the big poppy tattoo between hip and armpit that lobbyist Remy Danton found as he glumly pleasured her during their latest dismal hotel room tryst.

Over here in dismal little England we do things properly: dark rooms, no frills, no fuss, a can of warm lager and a rancid kebab on the way home.

In the first Super Bowl, the Bills lost to the Giants without the extra week of coaches burrowing mole-like in their dismal film rooms.

And they had succeeded, but only by jettisoning all the trappings of a hostel, both the dismal (shared rooms, shared toilets) and the delightful (group events, lively public spaces).

Most of the time -- as was the case with the Iraqi sanctions sessions -- they are closeted in dismal, often windowless rooms more like 1950's airports.