How To Use Depressingly In A Sentence
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But there is depressingly little sign that this will happen soon.
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His incendiary rhetoric will be depressingly familiar to the CalMac ferry staff awaiting a resolution to their own increasingly acrimonious pay dispute.
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Neville's actions set in motion a chain of events that have become depressingly familiar these days.
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Depressingly, this is still the standard format - and similarly unenlightening for the intellectually curious viewer.
Times, Sunday Times
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That sounds awfully dramatic, but it's actually quite depressingly trivial and unimportant.
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Yet that perception exists in the popular imagination, as our poll so depressingly illustrates.
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This is where we come in, the pros you see seated behind the tables in the hotel conference rooms, facing the serried ranks of either depressingly empty or intimidatingly full chairs set out in rows before us.
Pros at Cons at SF Novelists
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New British civic buildings with the architectural panache that continental Europeans take for granted have proved depressingly elusive for a generation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The homely cardie, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in our depressingly cold and damp northern climate.
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My score was depressingly low.
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The particular horrors of that regime, unique in the methodical coldness of their execution if depressingly familiar in the depths of their bestiality, would seem to have been plumbed and catalogued ad infinitum.
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With no church bell summoning us to worship, we have to decide what to do with our time - and depressingly most of us are spending it on the number one modern pastime: shopping.
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The boos from a large section of them at the end have a depressingly familiar ring.
The Sun
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The reasons why none of the three main parties deserves to govern Britain for the next five years are depressingly familiar.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a spell in the early 1970s he was one of the world's biggest heart-throbs, but then it went depressingly wrong.
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Not scary, not provocative, just depressingly, unremarkably crass.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hadn't started as a radical; at first his appointment had been seen as a depressingly safe one by churchpeople committed to resisting the corruption and cruelty of the government.
Archbishop's Thought for the Day on Radio 4
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It's cautious about its voice (although there are occasional weird stylistic anachronisms, which may be deliberate, but also, rather depressingly, may not be), anxious not to overstep its own mark.
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But for a new wave of teenage Aberdeen supporters, the old fogey between the sticks must be just another member of a depressingly unsuccessful side.
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In fact, the documentary record is always depressingly full of fragments and gaps.
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My hair was lank and dull, I was very thin, brown pigmentation began to spread up my arms and on my cheeks; I was depressingly unattractive.
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It all sounded depressingly familiar to Janet.
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The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
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In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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A thalassic mba business school steadied to tsetse calfskin to the mediatory mamilla despicably napoleon and how to use it depressingly.
Rational Review
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In front of 39,000 supporters, they turned out a display that was uninventive, effortless and depressingly poor.
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The homely cardie, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in our depressingly cold and damp northern climate.
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In a golfing era where power is depressingly close to omnipotent, he bucks almost every trend.
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Sourced from the Yorkshire Evening Post again; depressingly the journalist still sees fit to misgender Ms Browne at every turn – and this fact is made more apparent when you realise that none of the quotes from the trial do so (for once).
Robyn Browne murder trial: “Celebrity clients spared court appearance”
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It's depressingly like the cartoon of a Colonel Blimp character sitting in an armchair beneath the huge head of a white rhino, explaining that he ‘thought he'd better bag one fast in case this conservation business doesn't work out.’
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The story was depressingly familiar.
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They were true originals on this late 1983 release, more weird and as depressingly great as ever, with two drummers and Mark E Smith in top form.
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The boos from a large section of them at the end have a depressingly familiar ring.
The Sun
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For a spell in the early 1970s he was one of the world's biggest heart-throbs, but then it went depressingly wrong.
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Again, your basic problems all derive from a depressingly familiar source: ignorance.
Matthew Yglesias » Disabling Embedding
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Angela told Nick the tale of the mysterious apparition of a beauteous "nighty," and wondered how she could ever have felt unhappy, or depressingly grown up.
The Port of Adventure
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The list of all-time gloomy hits is depressingly long.
Times, Sunday Times
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For while the political implications are indeed large, the tactics employed by both sides have been depressingly small-minded.
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Moreover, they had a refreshing ability to avoid being nailed by those same tabloids that uncovered acts of debauchery by British players on a depressingly regular basis.
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How do we “boost educational attainment at the bottom” when educational attainment is “depressingly” easy to predict by age 5?
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