Sentence examples for like a dismal from inspiring English sources

But there was something lonesome about the saloon, and drinking there felt like a dismal duty.

At times, it has made me feel like a dismal failure – and it has been very difficult for them.

This might sound like a dismal statistic, but it's also an opportunity – a valuable benchmark from which we can now improve.

After all, endless permutations of The Notebook might seem like a dismal prospect, but it's no more dismal than the thought of Sparks writing, say, Die Hard.

I'd come with a file full of recipes and big shellfish ambitions, but once I was introduced to the Barksdales, McNulty, Omar, Bunk, the Baltimore waterfront and Hamsterdam, cooking seemed like a dismal waste of time.

This can be a boon to its image: see Prince Charles and Princess Diana, wearing matching Burberry raincoats, umbrellas held aloft, on what looks like a dismal vacation in 1983, or Susan Boyle, post-spiffing, accessorizing her leather jacket with a Burberry scarf.

Nobody RSVP'd, of course, and it looked like being a dismal failure.

The rise in miners rescued what looked like being a dismal day for the blue-chips - with financial services companies suffering from the prospect of an EU-wide transaction tax.

And, according to a new study, they are among the problems that have earned Idaho an unfortunate distinction: it had the slowest Internet speeds in the country earlier this year for residential customers who were downloading things like games — a "dismal" average of 318 kilobytes per second.

Stoke rarely looked like ending a dismal run of 11 successive Old Trafford defeats, though, until Diouf and substitute Marko Arnautovic went close in the final moments.

But they have never filled up with tenants and have a dismal, mall-like interior with few stylish showrooms.