Example Sentences

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The bright and blue-skied backdrop is utterly at odds with the cheerlessness deliciously conjured by Tolkien.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2013

That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home.

From Time Magazine Archive

The driver's hat was white, like his bones; it drooped in weather-beaten limpness about his ears, hiding his face, but he appeared to have an hospitable heart in spite of the cheerlessness of his pursuit.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

Where cheerlessness, and hunger, and desponding toil, or hopeless apathy, brood continually.

From Humanity in the City by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)

For all the brilliant blaze of sunlight that brightened the large court-yard into which we were conducted, there was about it curious coldness and cheerlessness.

From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)