| I shall endeavour to live through it and will hopefully be as drear as ever within a few hours. |
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| All experience, however harsh and drear, can be integrated into one's personal life. |
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| In one of the drear university buildings, they were commissioned to redesign the arts department. |
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| Whether because of the rain, or some sense of corporate foreboding, the offices of Sanderson and Parkes were particularly drear that morning. |
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| A lot of time would be spent looking out to a drear sea and overcast sky from one of the numerous shelters on the front. |
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| We woke under dull, drear skies, with a steadily increasing wind accompanied by blasts of sleet as the day wore on. |
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| Currently, although in good condition, the house and gardens may look a little drear, particularly in the agent's snapshots. |
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| There's a photo of us all, sitting among the drear rocks and smiling apprehensively at the camera. |
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| I had to move to beautiful New England — its triple deckers, whited churches, unplowed streets — to learn how drear and deadly life can be. |
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| I felt decayed, drear, pounded down like a gel-cup, compressed yet empty. |
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| But I found it strangely drear and flat with a vastly inflated reputation. |
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| Leaving the theatre on that wet and drear Sunday afternoon I realised that America is too vast to feel the liberalising influence of a city like New York. |
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| But his angel, the daughter he has come to see, not only receives him with recognition and securing love but then chooses to escape the drear company with him. |
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| They had wrinkles underneath their eyes, drear expressions on their faces. |
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| Hope's mother brought up seven boys in drear, impoverished conditions. |
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| Then, reinvigorated and replenished, I began my journey back to the drear. |
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| The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear. |
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