Sentence examples for dreary hours from inspiring English sources

The fire was put out, and "Gezeiten" continued, all two dreary hours of it.

I tried filling the dreary hours with poetry — my first love — but I'd been a script doctor too long.

I tried filling the dreary hours with poetry my first love but I'd been a script doctor too long.

Clearly he's done some desk time himself, and has harvested from those dreary hours a sly gift for translating the dross of small talk into subtle, quietly quirky comedy.

Here are all the moves and feints documented so well by Bill Ayers in "Fugitive Days," his memoir of life in the Weather Underground -- the coded phone calls, disguises and tense vigils alternating with dreary hours of waiting.

Imagine if, when you were at school, you'd spent all those dreary hours staring at a blackboard playing computer games instead.

—   Nae man can tether time or tide;  The hour approaches Tam maun ride;  That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane,  That dreary hour he mounts his beast in;  And sic a night he taks the road in  As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.

In the darkest, dreariest hours of last year's N.B.A. lockout, when the rhetoric had gone cold and faces had turned numb, league officials clung tightly to two goals: lower costs and competitive balance.

Elephant articulates these dreary long hours in an institution that end in such horror, but there's a continuous horror of banality all the way through.

What follows are some of the most dreary, joy-destroying hours you'll ever spend in the company of a video game.

These powers aren't "unlocked" in the same dreary, pound-per-hour sense as a Call of Duty perk; they're uncovered, earned, after following a chain of puzzles and challenges to its conclusion.