Sentence examples for this rather drab from inspiring English sources

Over time, this rather drab creature evolved its characteristic plumage.

More jarring is the realization that this rather drab exterior enclosed the pageantry of 19 royal coronations between 1563 and 1830, when much of Hungary was under the dominion of the Ottomans, and Bratislava -- which the Hungarians called Pozsony -- was the capital of the rest.

Its cars of that era were little changed from the rather drab 1942 models that went on sale in September 1941.

Inside the rather drab foyer, kind ladies offer directions while down-and-outs lounge about waiting for help and handouts.

Buchan has a delightful way with words, a flourish that is all the more welcome amid the rather drab police-speak employed by everyone else.

Isn't that — along with the inverse of that — what currently defines the rival residents of the rather drab edifice that hovers over an intersection of North Jersey roadway?

Mr. Zong says he arrives at work every day before 7 a.m., eats breakfast at the rather drab headquarters in Hangzhou and usually works until 11 p.m.

By the time of his 1948 one-man show at the Leicester Galleries in London, Scott stood apart from two influential movements in the British art scene – the neo-Romanticism of Graham Sutherland and the "rather drab and provincial" Euston Road school.

It takes the best part of an afternoon to walk from the eastern end of the Undercliff at Lyme Regis to the rather drab seaside town of Seaton at the western end, and, unless it's the height of summer, you're unlikely to pass more than a handful of people on the way.

But ultimately this is a rather drab "Zauberflöte," in which the magical elements aren't felt.

AGES 11-13 -- A rather drab film has limited appeal to children in this bracket.