How to use "bleak" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "bleak" in popular movie and book plots

  • Faced with this bleak reality, Merin chooses to sabotage the farcaster, beginning "Siri's War", a hopeless resistance against the Hegemony.  - Hyperion (Simmons novel)
  • Here, stripped of her powers, she wanders the bleak landscape and nearly drowns in an oily bog.  - Supergirl (film)
  • Hornblower promptly rejects the Captain's pleading in spite of their bleak situation and uses his pistols to prevent a mutiny.  - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
  • Life seems bleak for Eddie and Richie, but things seemingly improve with the arrival of the "Nice family", with Simon Pegg playing the father.  - Guest House Paradiso
  • As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, dr Kersaint (Thomas Mitchell) blows his former home a kiss.  - The Hurricane (1937 film)
  • When told through the POV of either Mary or Axel the view of humanity, and of the Jordache family, is relentlessly bleak and pessimistic.  - Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)
  • Eventually, he too is swallowed up and finds himself in a cattle car heading towards a bleak future.  - Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
  • Tomoya's psychology is developed in his dreams of a bleak world, called the , where small orbs of light float around.  - Clannad (visual novel)
  • King Richard is appalled to find that Prince John has left his kingdom bleak and oppressed.  - Robin Hood (1973 film)
  • The game consists of finding something to be glad about in every situation, no matter how bleak it may be.  - Pollyanna
  • Now that Baran is 16, he is no longer allowed to stay in Germany and faces the bleak prospect of getting deported back.  - Kleine Freiheit
  • "New Rose Hotel" presents a bleak future as extrapolated from contemporary economic and social trends.  - New Rose Hotel
  • She dislikes her new home, the people living in it, and most of all, the bleak moor on which it sits.  - The Secret Garden
  • While unconditionally supported by his mother, Ma, Timon dreams for more in life than his colony's bleak existence hiding from predators.  - The Lion King 1½
  • A man finds himself wandering around a misty, bleak mountainous terrain.  - Dreams (1990 film)
  • After liaisons in bleak hotel rooms they leave their spouses (and, in Robert's case, children) and move into an apartment.  - Darling (1965 film)

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