Sentence examples for dismal shape from inspiring English sources

In 1998, when Ms. Peck bought the apartment for about $260,000, it was in dismal shape.

Investors remained uncertain, with signs of an expected recovery still absent and corporate profits in dismal shape.

Despite a 1980's renovation, he said, the track surface was "in dismal shape" toward the end.

In the spring of 1992, the airline industry was in dismal shape, debilitated by the recently ended recession and an overreliance on discounting.

And none of the N.F.L. franchises in question are in as dismal shape as Tennessee is in football's semi-pro division.

It was a cheering surprise, the sort of dismal shape you could be in and still get into some maenadic self-harmer's pants.

And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between.

Between this ruling and Barnes & Noble's CEO resigning because of the company's dismal Nook performance, this week is shaping up to be a good one for Amazon.

An exception to this rule was the epic of a complex conceived in the late Twenties and built at the beginning of the Thirties, monumental in the dimensions of the structure but just as severe in its shapes, and even solemn in its dismal grandeur, known since 1976, thanks to the novel by Yuri Trifonov, as Dom na nabereinoj (The house on the embankment).

In that respect, the Republican primaries are shaping up to be a worrisome, dismal failure.

Naturally, beyond the dismal failure of the place-kicker, John Hall, this was already shaping up to be Al Groh's fault.