Word Finder - bleak

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Without color; pale; pallid.

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Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

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A bleak and bare rock.

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Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

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A bleak future is in store for you.

In the winter the landscape is bleak and the house is drafty.

The feeling of failure settled into her bleak thoughts.

The surrounding country is bleak, and the coast is low.

The landscape around them was bleak, almost as devoid of plant life as the white sands had been.

Most of the hills are covered with trees, but the Eifel (q.v.) is a barren and bleak plateau.

The bleak and desolate heights of the Serra da Estrella and the ranges of the northern frontier are almost alpine in character, although they nowhere reach the limit of perpetual snow.

The more southerly, which is much the larger of the two portions, belongs to the bleak, mountainous region of the Frankenwald and the Vogtland, while the northern portion is hilly, but fertile.

The fact that Mrs. Worthington's sister was playing tourist on the road for at least the next two weeks made prospects bleak for catching up with Martha's bones, at least in the near future.

It's got a pretty bleak outlook on old age.

At higher altitudes long, cold, wet winters are experienced, with so short and cold a summer between them that the bleak paramos are left uninhabited except by a few shepherds in the short dry season.

His future, as it was, seemed pretty bleak.

The plateau is bleak and inhospitable in the north, barren and arid toward the south, containing great saline depressions covered with water in the rainy season, and broken by ridges and peaks, the highest being the Cerro de Tahua, 17,454 ft.

They form an interesting and bleak moorland between Cookstown and Omagh, extending north-eastward into Slieve Gallion in county Londonderry, and consist fundamentally of mica-schist and gneiss, affected by earth-pressures, and invaded by granite near Lough Fee.

The surrounding district is open and somewhat bleak, but a fine stretch of sand fringes the shallow inlet of the North Sea known as Aldeburgh Bay.

Excepting on the west coasts of the larger islands, which present rugged cliff scenery remarkable both for beauty and for colouring, the group lies somewhat low and is of bleak aspect, owing to the absence of trees.

The soil consists almost entirely of sand and gravel, and is covered with bleak moorland, patches of wood, and fen.

The hand of man is visible in this somewhat bleak park.

In places suited to its growth it seems to flourish nearly as well as in the woods of Norway or Switzerland; but as it needs for its successful cultivation as a timber tree soils that might be turned to agricultural account, it is not so well adapted for economic planting in Britain as the Scotch fir or larch, which come to perfection in more bleak and elevated regions, and on comparatively barren ground, though it may perhaps be grown to advantage on some moist hill-sides and mountain hollows.

Such truths present a bleak reality for parents wishing to enroll their children in certain preschool programs that require potty training.

Whether they're tossed on a couch, chair, bed, or even the floor, they add comfort and a sense of hominess to even the most bleak décor schemes.

It has to be said that at times the outlook appears bleak.

The principal copper-bearing districts are Chimbote, Cajamarca, Huancayo, Huaraz, Huallanca, Junin, Huancavelica, Ica, Arequipa, Andahuaylas and Cuzco - chiefly situated in the high, bleak regions of the Andes.

On the uplands, however, the air is cool and bracing in summer, and in winter very bleak.

It readily crosses with the white bream, and more rarely with the roach and bleak.

With Barnardo's help, an unhappy childhood need not lead to a bleak future.

Food is scarse, and the music is almost formless with a bleak sadness.

Although criticized at the time for being too garish, it's a far cry from the bleak functionality of today's Budapest malls.

The aspect of the surrounding country is bleak and barren, consisting of hills above hills clothed with scanty herbage or heather.

The audience enters to find bleak wire mesh framing a space which is bare apart from two wooden pallets.

Seek the comfort of others who are experiencing their bleak outlook on life.

Reports that were obviously wrong, though the prognosis for Swayze still looks a bit bleak.

Well, it seems that celebrities can rest easy because no matter how bleak things get with the economy, job loss and foreclosures, people still set aside some of their hard earned money for entertainment.

Hardy shrubs of the Pea, order, thriving in ordinary garden soil, but requiring a sheltered situation in bleak localities.

If your landscape looks bleak during the winter months, consider adding a few winter blooming plants to perk things up.

If your landscape is gray and bleak during the winter, consider planting one or several of the following trees to add a splash of color during the coolest months of the year.

That doesn't mean your future finances are going to be bleak.

If you've never created a spending and saving plan before, the reality of your financial situation can sometimes look bleak.

Unfortunately, many processed foods contain high levels of sodium, making the prospect of keeping intake under control bleak for those who eat these foods.

The future of twenty minutes from now was bleak and dystopian, with greedy corporations setting the agenda and the common people having very little privacy or say in matters.

Set in a futuristic multi-ethnic Los Angeles, dominated by Times-Square-like electronic billboards, it is at once both glittering and bleak.

He chooses the red pill and discovers a bleak and barren earth controlled entirely by the machines that rebelled and enslaved humanity.

Surrounded by dementors, hooded guards from the wizard prison, Azkaban, Hogwarts has never seemed so bleak.

They have restored biodiversity at the former open cast coal mine at Bleak House.

Why does the future of the sugar industry seem bleak?

Meanwhile, life in occupied country C remains bleak.

The island sounds bleak, windy and unattractive, but after months on Gallipoli it must have seemed like paradise.

Contents Winter Clouded with snow The bleak winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough The robin with its burning breast Alone sings now.

The specter, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.

It's a bleak and satisfying film with an immensely engaging tarnished hero in Auteuil.

Now it has all returned to bleak high-density housing.