Sentence examples for on a drab from inspiring English sources

During a televised meeting of his participation in Russia's nationwide census in 2010, Putin appeared on a drab beige sofa in one of the two modest flats he is officially registered as owning.

Set on a drab, crude set, this is a small drama about a large subject: the ravages of war.

The pale five-story brick building, on a drab residential block, looks like many others in the Bronx.

Colfax's whites dedicated the monument to their dead on a drab day in the spring of 1921.

And paradoxically, all the attention to this obscure room on a drab corridor has brought newcomers knocking, as if at the door of a speakeasy.

NOVOROSSIYSK, Russia — One day last fall, a police officer here put on his uniform and sat on a drab tan couch before a video camera.

Then on to a drab Salzburg suburb and the offices of Hardcore Sport in the Air.

They cut this, and began instead with a laundry bag thrown from a moving DeSoto; it lands on the steps of a drab brick building.

Built on the site of a drab office block called Bowater House, the development became a symbol of a supercharged market, appealing or appalling according to your bank balance and concern for society.

Last year, I met Prime Minister Thaci in his office, on the second floor of a drab fourteen-story tower in central Pristina.

I went to visit him in his office, in downtown Harbin, on the fourth floor of a drab building with heavy front doors and a security guard in the lobby.