Sentence examples for somewhat drab from inspiring English sources
The period look, designed by Christopher Oram, is somewhat drab and sleepy, as 18th-century Seville may well have been.
The movie dares to portray small-town middle-class life in America as somewhat drab and predictable.
While the Triangle is full of grand houses and former palaces that front onto the canals, many properties are somewhat drab in their gray or dull ochre uniformity.
The museum, a fine addition to a somewhat drab skyline, is best seen at nightfall or under grey skies, says its architect, Christian de Portzamparc.
There were far fewer pigments available to the people of antiquity, and most of them were somewhat drab by today's standards.
Tomo's Cuisine 113 Route 23 (Newark-Pompton Turnpike) Little Falls (973) 837-1117 VERY GOOD THE SPACE -- Tiny, somewhat drab sushi parlor in an aging frame house.
And so it is with Noche, a new pan-Latin restaurant where the somewhat drab-looking street-level bar gives little away to the passerby.
It's inert and quite drab, isolated, somewhat elegant in its blunt simplicity, but essentially pointless, though it does somewhat humanize the remote and desolate site".
Bailey's aesthetic can be somewhat glum — "drab fab," people said of a Prorsum show, last year, that featured knit caps, sooty colors, and a runway strewn with dry leaves.
Like no other building in Los Angeles, it is seen, perhaps quixotically, as a symbol of the city's new downtown, now drab by day and somewhat lifeless at night.
