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bleakly

[ UK /blˈiːkli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. without hope
    he wondered bleakly

How To Use bleakly In A Sentence

  • Indeed, when looking at the catalogue of Baby Cow's bleakly funny programmes – Marion and Geoff, Human Remains, Nighty Night, Sensitive Skin, Sarah and Lizzie – one could scarcely find a better description of them than Chekhov's own words for his subject matter: "the sad comicality of everyday life". Chekhov Shorts: 'I'm Ivan Nyukhin, aha!'
  • Not a particularly attractive town, it's the kind of town whose motto might as well be "Get me outta Dodge," not unlike those desperate and bleakly futureless burgs of the Midwest whose economies are fueled by methamphetamine factories in rusted trailers and the promise of a new prison. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail
  • He stared bleakly at Tatiana, who said, peering up into his face," Shura, I have some kasha. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
  • Seigi barely had time to bleakly wonder how close he had come to death before the bowman was slamming into him from behind, hissing ‘Go, go, go!’
  • It was a bleakly impressive coastline.
  • He looks at Lucy's white face and gives her a bearlike hug and she smiles bleakly. SEA MUSIC
  • Oh, dear , she murmured bleakly, we owe $ 392. They had managed to collect only $ 135.
  • I am surrounded by women in their fifties who are looking bleakly at their futures. Times, Sunday Times
  • he wondered bleakly
  • Oh , dear ,'she murmured bleakly, " We owe $ 392.
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