Sentence examples for dreary report from inspiring English sources

That followed a similarly dreary report on Wednesday that showed the lowest level of new home sales since 1963.

Investors had been bracing for a dreary report because of speculation that snowstorms in February would exaggerate job losses by 100,000 or more.

Real estate construction also stayed stagnant, businesses said, dovetailing with a dreary report on housing released on Wednesday by the Commerce Department.

So before another charity is tempted to produce another dreary report decrying the erosion of outdoor play, they should acknowledge the reality, which is that such activity directly contradicts the prevailing ethos of child protection.

The one bit of light in this dreary report is that two-factor authentication — arguably more important than a good password — is in fact making strides, and some of the worst offenders in password policy (looking at you, Amazon) allow it.

It is a mathematical predicament, an abstraction that expresses itself in dreary reports that don't affect you, until they do.

Dreary reports on the prospects of regional banks, which have been battered by the tight credit market, weighed down the major indexes and sent shares of financial firms lower.

The dreary reports did not totally sap the Street, but certainly limited its gains.

At a conference last weekend in Zacatecas, several charged that the Mexican government had inflated remittance figures to help brighten an otherwise dreary economic report.

Readers have been snapping up the books, eager to get a glimpse behind the fog of war and ready to embrace stories that accentuate heroism instead of the often dreary developments reported in daily news accounts.

A steady drumbeat of dreary earnings reports from technology stocks -- Dell Computer and Nortel Networks most recently -- have investors concerned that the hangover from the bull-market party may last much longer than they previously thought.