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Meanings of bleakness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "desolation"
Examples for "desolation"
1
The desolation was gone; the desert bloomed and blossomed as the rose.
2
Their voice sings in the windows, and desolation is in the thresholds.
3
It was an hour of desolation; it was the day of doom.
4
The desolation of the picture of England in my mind grew congenial.
5
Even the sawdust pyramids and the stumps are magnificent in their desolation.
1
The scrutator looked down at his grizzled nakedness, grinned, and said, 'Quite!'
2
Her nakedness isn't going to bring about change or stop police brutality.
3
Their nakedness grabbed national headlines and forced the country to pay attention.
4
But I saw the grounds now in their nakedness because I understood.
5
There was seductiveness for Elisaveta in the nakedness of these impetuous bodies.
1
The bareness of extreme poverty marked everything on which my eyes rested.
2
Her feet, her little feet-theirbareness no longer troubled her-leftthe ground.
3
The hospital-like bareness of the room evinced a simple taste in the owner.
4
The purple shadows of the palm-trees intensified the bareness of the sunny desert.
5
The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant.
Usage of bleakness in English
1
They returned his gaze, the bleakness in their eyes matching his own.
2
Neither this nor the cold wind or the bleakness dampened his spirits.
3
In the bleakness of their absence he always felt lonelier than before.
4
In its bleakness and beauty, it was a day for John McGahern.
5
To block out the vast sky in all its beauty and bleakness.
6
It was a scene of vast bleakness and desolation, stern, forbidding, fascinating.
7
The narrow windows were barred, and the building emanated a quiet bleakness.
8
Your old eyes are blinded by the cold bleakness of the border.
9
Her face lost in the same second its bleakness of pallor.
10
She was happy, delivered from her house of widowhood and bleakness.
11
A look of such bleakness overcame her father that Kaylie wanted to weep.
12
Some men, in that bleakness, drank up their families' groceries, but not Bob.
13
Why had he not noticed the bleakness of the landscape the first time?
14
Something of his former bleakness of aspect returned to the office-boy.
15
A bleakness and melancholy seemed to encompass the spot on this sombre day.
16
There was a bleakness about the situation which made one gasp.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common