In a sentence
Six example sentences with depressing, each labelled with its topic.
Walking the beach after the storm was depressing: bottle caps, netting, and foam packed into every line of seaweed.
Environment
The quarterly figures made depressing reading, with wages flat for three years while rents in the same towns rose steadily.
Economics
The hotel brochure promised a garden view, and the depressing reality was a car park behind frosted glass.
Travel
The novel is depressing by design, following a clerk whose small hopes are crushed one chapter at a time.
Literature
The depressing part of a twelve-game losing streak is the empty arena, with whole sections dark by the fourth quarter.
Basketball
Critics called the film depressing, two hours of gray rain and a hero who never once gets the letter he waits for.
Movies
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