bleak

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bleak, each labelled with its topic.

• The forecast was bleak: three more quarters of falling output before any recovery the committee could realistically promise.

  Economics

• The novel's opening pages are deliberately bleak, and readers who push past them find the warmth arrives late.

  Literature

• Down twenty at halftime with two starters injured, the mood in the visiting locker room turned bleak.

  Basketball

• With six weeks of cash left and no investor returning calls, the founders admitted the outlook was bleak.

  Startups

• The film's ending is bleak on purpose, leaving the family at the bus station with no ticket and no plan.

  Movies

• The reef survey painted a bleak picture, with nine of ten sites showing coral that had not recovered from the last bleaching.

  Environment

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains bleak. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

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