Use of drab in Sentences. 29 Examples
The examples include drab at the start of sentence, drab at the end of sentence and drab in the middle of sentence
drab at the end of sentence
- Manyare extremely colorful, many are drab.
- Why were men able to play around with any sort of drab?
- Although her woollen dress was scarlet it none the less appeared drab.
drab in the middle of sentence
- She seemed to like her drab vista.
- The walls were painted a drab green.
- I feel so drab in this grey uniform.
- War was never intended to be a drab affair.
- Paul grew tired of his drab, depressing life.
- The landscape is drab and infested with brick ovens.
- The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.
- They live in very comfortable/pleasant/drab/bleak surroundings.
- You enter the drab office building half-expecting it to be abandoned.
- Life was now drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas.
- When I came to Manchester from Brazil everything seemed so drab and colourless.
- I liked the town, for all its drab and muted calm; it seemed a safe place to be.
- She walked through the city centre with its drab, grey buildings and felt depressed.
- The decorations for the games have lent a splash of colour to an otherwise drab city.
- Stores were drab, unsettled by heavier-than-expected losses at Tie Rack, 47p, down 7p.
- She was just the boss's daughter, a rather timid and drab little thing in his estimation.
- The roads were busy, the buildings were grey and drab; there were tall, high-rise blocks.
- They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors.
- Her personality was drab, earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive.
- The red stems of this bush provide a contrast to the drab brown of the rest of the winter garden.
- Canvassing one day in a by-election in Essex, Martin was asked to cover a street of drab brick semis.
- Their clothes hung loosely on their frames, drab coats and washed-out dresses covered with a film of dust.
- A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.
- Not surprisingly, therefore, they are themselves drab creatures dressed in browns and greys, olive green and steel blue.
- The filmed dogfights are beautifully staged and feature numerous shots of the olive drab and grey P-40s against the blue Hawaiian sky.
- Unfortunately, much of the drab utilitarianism of urban existence has come to be associated with the design philosophy of functionalism.
Sentence Examples for Similar Words:
- colorless
- , dreary
- , monotonous
- , dingy
- , featureless
- , dull
- , uninteresting
- , dowdy
- , lackluster
- , plain
- , flat
