Sentence examples for this bleak existence from inspiring English sources

Convey this bleak existence in costume form by doing your best to create an elaborate and impressive outfit but on a very limited budget, then turning up at a party wearing a set of sparkly shoes, or a complex, suggestive shirt or top.

The book opens with Amani trying to get out of the bleak existence she can't help but detest.

Sadly, it just seemed to reinforce the bleak existence I was forced to live in.

In this bleak world what hope of joy?

In this bleak world a hope of joy.

It's a bleak existence (a bleakness John Lee Beatty suitably captures with his sets for the red-lacquered Chinese restaurant and steel-gray metal storefront where the action takes place), and the fact it's all so funny speaks volumes about the American psyche.

For a person who likes to be creative, this can mean a bleak existence.

In 75 years of Communist rule, people traded freedom for an assured, if sometimes bleak existence.

It is a bleak existence, but he is not inclined to return to Somalia.

In past documentaries, Mr. Segre often focused on the harsh, bleak existence of illegal immigrants to Italy.

Where details of their lives emerge with any clarity, they most often tell of a changeless and bleak existence.