English example sentences with "dismal"

The rain made the autumn day dismal.
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The outlook for the defense program is dismal.
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That doctrine will no doubt lead to dismal consequences.
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The house looked very dismal.
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The prospects for Japan's future look dismal.
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Sales were apparently dismal.
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Edison's talking doll was a dismal failure.
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"In doubt, we bade Eurypylus explore / Apollo's oracle, and back he brought / the dismal news: With blood, a maiden's gore, / ye stilled the winds, when Trojan shores ye sought. / With blood again must your return be bought; / an Argive victim doth the God demand."
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Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound:
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a dismal failure.
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One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"
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The flyover provides a dismal view of slum dwellings.
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It was a dismal failure.
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A world without you would be dismal.
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City put in another dismal performance, losing two-nil to fellow strugglers Town.
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I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called “The Island of Despair”; all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead.
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