Sentence examples for dreary things from inspiring English sources

"Others," Ms. Dickinson said sadly, "have the same dreary things that've been there forever".

As for comparisons between the princely helicopters, I'm afraid William's Sea King sports dreary things like nightvision goggles and a rescue hoist, while Harry's hardware includes Hellfire missiles and rockets and everything.

No matter how dreary things get, there will always be a certain crowd that favors gilded ceilings over mid-century furnishings; Versace over Jil Sander.

In his inaugural address, he pleaded: "Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.

If the show intended to nod at the kinds of abstraction influenced by American painting of the 1960s (Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and others painted on canvas with acrylics in a way that seemed to up the ante of the watercolour tradition), why not chose a late 60s John Hoyland, a 70s Bert Irvin or a recent John McLean rather than this dreary thing?

But real science, the fundamentals, like the subject of Nash's lecture, is a dreary thing, like truth itself.

To me, that is one of the dreariest things I can think of.

Historical society museums can be cluttered, dreary, disheveled things.

It's hard luck on the adroit performers in the final part that their task is so dreary: eating nasty things (grass and scourers), repeating the same lines over and over again.

"Oh, I'll take over the world later," Ms. Kloss added, referring to reports her new agency, the sports and entertainment powerhouse IMG, had plans to turn her into that dreariest of all things, a brand.

It sounds a bit like a return to the dreary tenement.The funny thing is, though, some economists who study spending through consumers' life cycles tell us frugality may actually be the practice of an optimist.