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Examples of bleak
bleak
The Department of Energy is offering a somewhat bleak forecast at the gas pumps.
From the washingtontimes.com
Across the land, salad bars and Taco Bells were bleak, lycopene-free wastelands.
From the time.com
It's a bleak theme, mental illness, and I was easily distracted from reading it.
From the odt.co.nz
Business leaders, meanwhile, have been tallying the storm's bleak economic toll.
From the chron.com
Inarritu is bent on keeping things bleak in the gritty, dirty world he explores.
From the kansas.com
There's certainly much joy even in the most bleak song on Horses and High Heels.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The military analysis outlined at the conference was bleak, urgent and striking.
From the economist.com
Debra Granik directed this bleak, desolate picture of a community scratching by.
From the cnn.com
That is not quite as bleak a picture as some Wall Streeters have been expecting.
From the time.com
- Black: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
- Bare: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
- Unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
- (bleakness) a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"
- Bleak is a Finnish rock band formed in 1997 and split in 2009. Bleak is now known as Fireal.
- The common bleak is a small pelagic fish of the Cyprinid family. It is often referred to simply as a "bleak", though this term can refer to any species of Alburnus.
- (Bleaks) Alburnus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family. It contains the following species: * Gokce Baligi (Alburnus akili) * Italian Bleak (Alburnus albidus) * Common Bleak (Alburnus alburnus) * Alburnus arborellan* Alburnus atropatenaen* Alburnus attalusn* Alburnus balikin* ...
- A small freshwater fish (Alburnus lucidus); and a similar saltwater fish (OED).
- Lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness; Grim; Not hopeful or encouraging; Depressing. E.g. "How could I not be concerned? The whole situation is most alarming! There is nothing worse than a sore throat. Its effects are exceedingly bleak. " - Mr. Elton
