Example Sentences

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The anger in America right now has been depressing.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2021

Coincidentally, the great oil chase comes at the very time a supply glut has been depressing petroleum prices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then it has been depressing to be able to do so little, when there was so much I had at heart to do.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

For weeks I have fancied that something has been depressing and troubling you, although you take great pains to conceal it.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

It has been depressing and corrupting to the country; a healthier air has been generated by indignation at the Bulgarian massacres, which have thrown us back on our rather forgotten humanity.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John