How to Use dismal in a Sentence

dismal

adjective

• The team's record is dismal.
• The show was a dismal failure.
• On my last day in town, King takes me for a drive through the east end’s dismal sprawl.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• At this time last year, the market approached the end of a dismal 2022.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2023
• May might have been joking, but such is the extent of the A’s dismal start.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
• Over the last 20 years, stock pickers have had a dismal record.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Eugene came in at rank 74 and Salem came in at a dismal 98th.
  — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
• The Packers closed the season 1-5-1 in a dismal slide that cost them a playoff spot.
  — Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• All in all, things are off to a promisingly dismal start.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Across Greece, anger grew over the country’s dismal rail safety record.
  — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• There are two ways of looking at these dismal lamb numbers.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 8 June 2023
• Certainly no one needs a recurrence of the dismal events of 2020.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• Brandon Miller He’s been one of a few bright spots in the otherwise dismal season for the Hornets.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
• Women hold 28 percent of seats in Congress — a U.S. record, but a dismal showing compared to much of the world.
  — David Agren, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Democrats have played the gratitude card before with dismal results.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• Some pointed to Facebook’s dismal IPO more than 10 years ago.
  — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• But long scoring droughts and a dismal night on the boards sent their penultimate home contest to the same place as so many before.
  — Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
• The dismal ridership may have something to do with the dismal service.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Across Greece, anger mounted over the country’s dismal rail safety record.
  — Emma Bubola, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• The first half against the Bluejays at home on Saturday was promising with the Bulldogs up by one point, but the second half was dismal.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• But, broadly, home buyers in the US have become even more dismal about buying.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 17 May 2023
• To continue with the central bank is to continue with its long, dismal record.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
• But awards show ratings, as well as just TV ratings across the board, have been pretty dismal since, well, the internet.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• Their stories are the story of this country, all the joy and heartbreak, all the vaunted hope and dismal reality.
  — Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• But turnout in the San Fernando Valley race was looking dismal.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• However, for Black founders, fundraising was a dismal year.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The exhibit leaves out one of the most egregious illustrations of FDR’s dismal ...
  — David T. Beito, National Review, 3 Sep. 2023
• Most major indexes were able to erase their losses from a dismal 2022.
  — Damian J. Troise, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
• But even those dismal numbers didn’t tell the whole story of how USC’s offense unraveled.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The weather was ideal, but broadband performance was dismal: 29 megabits down and 24 up.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024