Sentence examples for plain dreary from inspiring English sources

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IS your bathtub dull, chipped, rusty or just plain dreary?

Boston alone has seen one of the snowiest Decembers in recent memory, and other parts of New England have been just plain dreary.

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Twenty-something hipsuburbanuburban moms and Jazzercising retirees are also filling their closets and cupboards with emergency food, which now comes in cheery packaging rather than the dreary plain cardboard that was standard back when the worry was Y2K.

And when the train had slid by, she would be peering out with the same look over Egnens Lyng — over the dreary plain".

The editor of the Nouvel Observateurs literary section called it "a great book" and the weekly Le Point stated that the novel has "exploded onto the dreary plain of the literary autumn like a meteor".

His 1962 production of Wuthering Heights was praised by Dennis Potter, then a television critic, who wrote in the Daily Herald newspaper that the production "was like a thunderstorm on the flat, dreary plains of the week's television.

The exception is the plain pizza margherita, a dreary package made with slices of fresh tomato, predictably tasteless and rubbery in January.

Sure, compared with that of the last Mustang, which had a generic feel to it, the old-school touches are nice, even if they don't fully offset such plain areas as the dreary, black center console.

After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears away From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.

Bands of many hundreds are thus frequently seen doing their migration from the dreary and desolate plains of some portion of the interior, which has formed their secluded abode, seeking for those more luxuriant pastures where, during the summer months, various herbs thrust forth their leaves and flowers to form a green carpet, spangled with hues the most brilliant and diversified.

Meanwhile, worthy characters tend to be dreary, like Captain America, or plain irritating, like Poppy Cross.

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