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Meanings of more dreary in English
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Usage of more dreary in English
1
Nothing can be more dreary than the situation of this religious house.
2
The nearer we approached the land, the more dreary and unpromising it appeared.
3
So the sounds were yet more dreary than the silence which they interrupted.
4
The familiar sitting-room looked just a little more dreary than usual.
5
No more dreary jobs, or school dorms, no more spare rooms.
6
As for the Dead Sea, it is even more dreary than I expected.
7
As morning dispelled the shades of night, it discovered still more dreary glooms.
8
When the sun is gone, it will get more dreary still.
9
Let me say, that in practice, nothing can be more dreary and disagreeable.
10
Indeed, nothing could be more dreary than the aspect which Scotland then presented.
11
No created place can be more dreary than an old and empty barn.
12
Nothing more dreary than this desolate wayside inn can be imagined.
13
A place more dreary, desolate to the eye, is seldom seen.
14
On the contrary, they looked, if possible, more dreary and inhospitable than before.
15
How dreary the streets did look!-howmuch more dreary than the stormy down!
16
Drenched in the rain this evening, the building looked even more dreary than usual.
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