Sentence examples for seem dreary from inspiring English sources

With fewer visitors, large stores can seem dreary and cavernous.

Maybe it happens a little later, when her job making shirt collars on an assembly line begins to seem dreary.

Written by a famous comedian, but not particularly funny, nor meant to be; set in a kind of frozen-in-aspic 1970s, with the odd non-working mobile phone; Graham Norton's first novel presents an utterly unblarneyfied vision of rural Ireland which makes it seem dreary, sad and miserable, yet still draws you in.

Monotony can make life seem dreary, and there is no reason to give in to it when there is a whole world of options out there.

The design inside was completely bastardized it was meant to be self-cooling and have lots of natural light, but as the years went by they added mezzanine floors and fucked up the entire internal structure, which made it seem dreary and enclosed.

The design inside was completely bastardised – it was meant to be self-cooling and have lots of natural light, but as the years went by they added mezzanine floors and fucked up the entire internal structure, which made it seem dreary and enclosed.

If this limbo seems dreary, imagine spending the next decade talking about Dow 10,000.

BEFORE the performing arts center opened seven years ago in Westhampton Beach, the sun-splashed East End village seemed dreary.

The International Gift Fair, held a week later in New York, would have seemed dreary by comparison if not for the exhibits that spilled out of the Javits Convention Center onto four Hudson River piers.

Cancer would seem a dreary, frightful topic if it weren't also such a universal one.

The small souvenir shops and quaint houses are not exactly eye-catching, and on a gray day they can seem downright dreary.