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• 'Twould be a dreary, lonely spring at Carlyle without shortsome Jane to add color to her days.2009, Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair Is the Rose. From the entry shortsome
• Behn had always associated the bourgeois with age, impotence, miserliness and dreary unflamboyance.2001, Derek Hughes, “Dearth and Famine”, in The Theatre of Aphra Behn, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry unflamboyance
• "Dreary to explain and word all that gnashy science into flowery bower chat," said Emul.1994, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Live Robots, page 260. From the entry gnashy
• It is not simply the view of selected dissidents that libraries are such difficult, dreary places.1978, Virginia Baeckler, PR for Pennies: Low-Cost Library Public Relations, Hopewell, N.J.: Sources, page 2. From the entry beseated
• Here we recognise the dreary, dank, desolate, overgrown, hemlocky complex at once.1969, John Jones, “To Ripen or to Wither?”, in John Keats’s Dream of Truth, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., →ISBN, section IV…. From the entry hemlocky
• From a dreary, commonplace piece to a smart colorful chair shining with personality.1937 April 24, Washington Post, page 12. From the entry presto chango
• But, instead, they’re bloodless, grandly bland, dreary.2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry quiet luxury
• “So,” completely resigned to a dreary world, “this is it?2019, Sreenivas Madhira, This is it: Yet another NDE? Or, is it just END?. From the entry this is it
• The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them.2004, Colm Tóibín, chapter 2, in The Master, New York: Scribner, page 26. From the entry dinner
• During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box.2003 March 31, Bill Litchfield, “Basketball Fans”, in rec.gardens (Usenet). From the entry idiot box
• Our ancestors called this dreary month 'Sprout-Kale', on account of cabbages being the only things that were showing signs of life.1998 February, Susan Crewe, “From the Editor”, in House & Garden (UK edition), volume 53, number 2 (whole number 559). From the entry fill-dyke
• Our station was not dreary Taipei but T'ai-chung, to the south and so sunny as to be the film center.1998, Jack Lenor Larsen, Jack Lenor Larsen- A Weaver's Memoir, Harry N. Abrams, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63. From the entry T'ai-chung
• Shakerag's nondescript shacks were alive with music day and night, a sharp contrast to the dreary, monotonous routines of work-a-day life.1993, Howard A. DeWitt, Elvis: The Sun Years : The Story of Elvis Presley in the Fifties, page 53. From the entry shakerag
• He knows his Graham technique, and this portrait of three exotically dreary sisters has some fine satiric touches.1983 June 26, Jennifer Dunning, “Dance: The Trockadero Draws Some Dancers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry mesdames
• "You could have at least said it was a nice dream," this dreary skellington nudged at her with its dry bones.1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19. From the entry skellington
• His monologue stopped abruptly with a sharp noise like a thundercrack that rolled in dreary echoes round the dismal mere.1922, G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much. From the entry thundercrack
• Chloe found the whole subject so dreary and dull that her imagination would float away into la-la land whenever the subject came up.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry la-la land
• They wolved down, off almost clean plates, the hot food of a dreary menu and subsequently wrote reams in the Complaints Register.2006, Upamanyu Chatterjee, “Hindi Lesson”, in Weight Loss, London: Penguin Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry wolve down
• Meanwhile we take pleasure in the sculpture of the natural landscape and find that distance sometimes lends enchantment even to intrinsically dreary man-scapes.1984, Elizabeth Bauer Kassler, Modern gardens and the landscape, page 45. From the entry man-scape
• But even though English soundtracks are left intact— as sort of exotic voiceunders — the situation is dreary for the average American news junkie.1984, Edith Terry, The executive guide to China, →ISBN, page 297. From the entry voiceunder
• London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels.1910 July 23, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and…. From the entry blatant
• Again we descend, perhaps to the dreary shore of some dead sea of life, where we may wander on unhopefully, nay, even unwishfully.1902, Mary Linskill, In Exchange for a Soul, page 126. From the entry unwishfully
• Along the way, she said, “That was the first thing I thought about the house, too—that all the dreary paneling down here makes it seem dungeonish.2011, Victoria Pade, The Baby Deal. From the entry dungeonish
• And, unlike with a film, or a TV show, or a dreary drinks party, you can’t just leave when the boredom descends like an itchy blanket.2009, Jeremy Clarkson, Driven to Distraction, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry shh
• Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed.2009, V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry prisoner of hope
• On the whole, in comparison with traditional agricultural landscapes, the appearance seems that of a “blandscape” rather than a landscape, a “flatscape” of dreary and monotonous sameness.2007, Arnold Berleant, Allen Carlson, The aesthetics of human environments. From the entry flatscape
• John figured that people who said Ciao were asking to be damaged, especially Brummies with dreary accents who sounded even more absurd than other non-Italian Ciao users.2001, David Franklin, Looking For Sarah Jane Smith, Baby Ice Dog Press, Australia, →ISBN. From the entry Brummie
• On the other hand, his engaging style and often salutary cynicism can be fully appreciated only if one has some familiarity with the dreary eulogizings written by his predecessors.1968, Catholic World, volume 207, page 237. From the entry eulogizing
• He frowned, and sent snifts of snow and symptoms of rain that dampened the ardor of the golf contingent and made things murky and dreary outside.1914, “Progress in the Mvement to Promote the Brick Industry”, in The Clay-worker, volume 61, page 652. From the entry snift
• In order to keep his intellect undulled by the routine of his dreary work, Matthew Arnold was wont to write a few lines of poetry each day.1912, Arthur E. P. B. Weigall, The Treasury of Ancient Egypt. From the entry undulled
• Khan shares a room in a dreary nursing home on the fringes of Houston, paralyzed from midchest down and tormented by a fateful choice to try to remake her life.2007 July 17, John M. Broder, “Filling Gaps in Iraq, Then Finding a Void at Home”, in New York Times. From the entry midchest
• We do get to see another side of Rhys, which is nowhere evident in the fiction — a dreary, work-like attitude which belies the faded, expiring tone of the novels.1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10. From the entry worklike
• But I wasn't good medicine for myself after I left them, he admitted, remembering the dreary years of failure at farming and trading, as blacksmith and deck hand and bullwhacker.1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 33. From the entry deckhand
• On opening the mildewed door, he flashed a tunnel of light down the passage, uncarpeted and dreary, which ended in a broad, straight, wooden staircase leading to the upper floor.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry mildewed

Meaning of dreary

1. adjective Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
2. adjective Grievous, dire; appalling.
3. noun A dreary person or thing.

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Questions about dreary in a sentence

How do you use dreary in a sentence?

Dreary is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.”

What is a short sentence with dreary?

“But, instead, they’re bloodless, grandly bland, dreary.”

What does dreary mean?

Dreary means drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.