Sentence examples for dreary landscape from inspiring English sources

The well-kept complex stands out from a dreary landscape of warehouses, railroad tracks and ramshackle apartments with boarded windows.

The one faint hope in this dreary landscape is Christie Whitman, the boss of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Guangdong used to be a dreary landscape of factories and dormitories, brightened by a duck pond here and there.

A child clad in red woolens provides much the same function in "And Then It's Spring," which opens with a dreary landscape.

For most of us, springtime marks the return of life to a dreary landscape, bringing birdsong, trees in bud, and daffodils in bloom.

Despite the memories, it was a fairly dreary landscape in Flushing, Queens, on Saturday afternoon, and a biting wind made it feel even less inviting.

Pointing to a group of oil paintings hanging in the front parlor, he deadpanned, "This is our collection of dreary landscapes".

If you're sketching often draw tortured faces, severed limbs or dreary landscapes.

A construction boom speckled the dreary industrial landscape with new hotels, office towers, restaurants and luxury shops.

"See No Evil," the brainchild of Inkie, a local street artist, and Team Love, music promoters from Bristol, was an art project and festival designed to transform the area's dreary, decaying landscape into a smorgasbord of urban art.

THE phrase "design on a budget" conjures up a dreary interior landscape of veneered wall units, particle-board-and-file-cabinet desks and canvas butterfly chairs dyed a Schwinn-bicycle blue.