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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

I press my thin face to the pane, Drearily; But never will he come again.

From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.