Example Sentences

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The headline on Kareem’s Substack column — “Winning Time” Isn’t Just Deliberately Dishonest, It’s Drearily Dull” — may not have been the death knell for the show, as it’s returning for a second season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Drearily familiar too are the concerns they’re deployed to elucidate.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2018

Drearily the animals on the nursery wall looked down on Mrs. Montague.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Drearily I wound my way downstairs: I knew what I had to do, and I did it mechanically.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"And at last, when the dim day broke, And the sullen sun awoke, Drearily blinking O'er the haze and the cannon-smoke, That even such morning dulls, There were thirteen traitor hulls On fire and sinking!"

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.