(1) The retail park is rather bleak and bare still, and there's a deal of construction going on.

(2) You get a sense of the scale of the city as you speed down rivers that curve forever, flanked by electrical towers, bleak apartment buildings and factories.

(3) She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.

(4) It was a vast, bleak , exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass.

(5) Out of Germany for 3 years, they returned to find the bleak , miserable European weather.

(6) They also give him room to create bleak landscapes that mirror the morality of the tales.

(7) They seemed both happy and disturbed, glad to see a change of pace besides the bleak land they were in, but unhappy for it to be that kind of change of pace.

(8) We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.

(9) He described the desert as so bleak and empty that travelers stacked up bones as landmarks.

(10) It is very much a community event, with schools, businesses and local organisations all joining together for a fun day to brighten the bleak midwinter.

(11) If people on middle incomes continue to shun inner cities, those areas will face a bleak future.

(12) But after three years of drought and little prospect that this year's rains will arrive in mid-April, the scene in Gode and other zones is bleak .

(13) He now lives alone in a one-bedroom flat on a bleak housing estate in Stranraer, Wigtownshire.

(14) On the 40-minute journey across the bleak landscape of the Fens the coach was preceded by a vanguard of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing.

(15) Our host, Mr Barelli, greeted us in out of the bleak rain as he greets everyone at his restaurant.

(16) Here one encounters the bleak landscape for the first time.

(17) I smiled encouragingly when she turned a bleak expression on me.

(18) So intense was the pain in this instance that I passed out on that cold, bleak Ann Arbor afternoon.

(19) He had been entrapped in this dark and bleak prison for years, and it was only recently that he had been able to escape its bars.

(20) As there are hardly any congregants in the bleak church, and these include only some of the central characters, this seems a strange device.