Sentence examples for merely drab from inspiring English sources

These hookers — the series began with 10 — are the kind who fish, but this show hasn't been merely drab shots of guys and gals casting at a riverside.

"The rest was just drab".

But drab reality must be faced.

Is it not possible that Holmes, as Cruise has maintained, is truly an "extraordinary woman" and not merely the drab, second-tier actress she appears to be in Batman Begins?

Harriet's existence was just as drab.

But she's drab all right.

He merely noted that the Chinese dressed alike -- "drab" -- and rode bikes that looked alike.

The first plants to colonize land didn't merely supply a dash of green to a drab landscape.

But a bit will enliven drab software.

Steve Guttenberg is probably supposed to be a lovable loser in "A Novel Romance," a drab, clumsy film by Allie Dvorin, but he can manage to be merely annoying.

Military khaki, however recast, is still a common street look, and Mr. Van Noten's method of mixing olive drab with tailoring or reinterpreting the trench coat as a skirt merely adapts ideas from men's fashion, notably by Junya Watanabe and Raf Simons.