Sentence examples for dreary construction from inspiring English sources
'Today it has 600 and we are still oversubscribed.' The school building, a dreary construction on Wembley High Street, has been the location for private functions such as weddings bringing in £150,000 a year.
It now would like to be a model for another kind of school experiment -- to bypass the dreary but durable cinder-block construction common in public schools and build an adaptable, contemporary structure that fits its mission.
A construction boom speckled the dreary industrial landscape with new hotels, office towers, restaurants and luxury shops.
A true-life account of an illegal Mexican immigrant who died on a New York construction site, and of the dreary lives and modest ambitions common to Mexicans in this country.
Three other families were moved into the compound -- one of them still shares it today with Mr. Qi and his relatives -- and for 12 dreary years, Mr. Qi was banished to farms and construction sites in the provinces.
Real estate construction also stayed stagnant, businesses said, dovetailing with a dreary report on housing released on Wednesday by the Commerce Department.
Those dreary conditions were underscored when December's data was compared with the previous year: the pace of construction climbed only 0.2 percent.
But construction on the campus in tiny Storrs, Conn., has transformed a faceless and by many accounts dreary and declining college outpost in less than half that time.
Discussing the work's intended effect, Breuning hopes we'll wonder, "Oh, they could just fall down". Among the dreary loading docks in the industrial Chai Wan neighborhood of Hong Kong, the colorful Vaford Gates -- named after the prominent construction company whose warehouse entrances they cover -- pop incongruous against sooty factory buildings.
