Sentence examples for dreary length from inspiring English sources
Memorex, an electronics manufacturer, refiled twice, dragging, like the case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Charles Dickens's "Bleak House", "its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless".
This sour assessment of the McCullers marriage does not keep Ms. Savigneau from quoting pages and pages of tedious correspondence exchanged by the couple during World War II, or from going on, at dreary and unnecessary length, about their ongoing spats and reconciliations and drunken high jinks.
How dreary it seems from a distance, on its hilltop.
Offered a choice between saying something diverting or something dreary, Coe plumps unerringly for the latter, at great length.
Griffiths gives us a sagging length of battenberg, one of the world's dreariest tea-time comestibles.
The elbow-length black gloves and turban with a splash of red were formal enough for the grandness of the abbey without looking dreary.
