How to Use depressing in a Sentence

depressing

adjective

• He paints a depressing picture of modern life.
• This rainy weather is depressing.
• One of the most depressing parts of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has long been where the bears are.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 June 2022
• To be honest, the state of the world is pretty depressing.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• When describing the game to friends, I’ve been met with questions as to whether the game is depressing.
  — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• His ability to stay one step ahead of the law is depressing.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• This Great Dane just read a very depressing story in The Atlantic.
  — Jake Goldwasser, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2022
• No offense to the Euphorias of the world, or the Ted Lassos, but this is depressing.
  — Wired, 16 July 2022
• The men are dopey and destructive; the women clever and thwarted, with all the good lines and the truly depressing fates.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Why would David send such a depressing email so early in the morning?
  — John Leland, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Others said the depressing amount of planning is overkill for those who just hate their jobs.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2022
• But Baldwin’s video is in a class of its own, a depressing ode to the Hamptons of his youth and pre-Rust glory years.
  — Curbed, 17 Jan. 2024
• My other challenge has been making sure that my videos aren’t the most depressing thing in the world.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 30 Mar. 2023
• The reason is, frankly, depressing, as Vosshall, Younger, and their colleagues have found.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
• If the soundtrack of our lives is angry, foul and depressing, how does that impact us?
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 15 July 2023
• On the way home, my son asked for his umbrella, but all that was left was a depressing plastic stem.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 31 Dec. 2022
• But the bigger picture is far more depressing, whether in the short term for Ukraine or in the long term for the Western order itself.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• That stat is obviously a depressing stat, but there’s a lot in the book that’s hopeful too.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• Which appears to be the depressing fate of our intrepid M161, who was shot and killed on Squaxin Island.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 23 Feb. 2023
• This isn’t the 70s of the gas shortage or anything else so depressing; this is a remembrance of things past both glitzier and hazier.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• There is nothing more depressing than the posters in your doctor’s office.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• Because a game like this can be depressing for Cleveland fans.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• The election was not the only depressing thing to happen in Florida this week.
  — Vulture, 10 Nov. 2022
• The entire spectacle, staged in Qatar, was grim and depressing.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Some of them have found it too depressing to contemplate.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Kahler said a crisis zone can be depressing for all involved.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• The folly would be more enjoyable if the context wasn’t so depressing.
  — Scott Bryan, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
• What remains is the most depressing statistic in today’s NBA.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
• So [the scene] was quite flattering and also quite depressing.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2022
• William, on the other hand, often has the soulful look of someone about to play a depressing solo on the acoustic guitar.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024