Example Sentences

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The slow, creeping death of the theatrical comedy has depressingly coincided with an age when things have never been less funny.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025

In this way, the future presenting itself to the Greenlanders is both exhilaratingly open and at the same time depressingly narrow.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

As a child, I was drawn to The Sims as a role-play for adulthood, a world of expansive promise and possibility; playing For Rent, I was reminded, depressingly, of how the game is rigged.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2024

It’s a depressingly reliable fact of Los Angeles architecture: Nothing comes easily on Bunker Hill.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024

Her locker was depressingly empty, but the second thing kept her from despairing too much: June’s mom had agreed to let her go to the dance.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake