drab

How To Use drab In A Sentence

• But they - like the infamous somnolent dogs of Bucharest streets, like the drab, grey concrete blocks in the suburbs - are not what Romania's future is about.
• As many as 30 different species grow, among them Alpine bartsia Bartsia alpina, Alpine bistort Polygonum viviparum, Unalaska fleabane Erigeron humilis and thick-leaved whitlow grass Draba crassifolia. Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
• As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
• When you take the colour from things it robs the world of its vitality and wonder, and leaves things drab and lifeless.
• Several images are striking, but the programme has no hint of a bright outlook, and costuming is consistently drab. Times, Sunday Times
• She offered Billy a clear route of escape from his drab existence, even if was hard to understand how she could really be interested in him.
• He closed the door and wabbled swiftly down the long drab hall of the “railroad flat,” evidently trying to walk straight. Our Mr. Wrenn
• Rockets of early manufacture are painted battleship gray or dark green; later rockets are olive drab.
• And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
• They were both dressed so that it was easy to mark them down as gypsy kin, their faded but bright clothes easy to spot amongst the normal gray drab of the peasants.