1. It's the unrelieved drabness of big industrial cities that depresses me.

2. Huy entered his house, and its drabness both depressed and reproached him.

3. The drabness of his surroundings,(Sentence dictionary) his own shabby clothes were explained and transformed by these books.

4. Amid this drabness, though, was a surprising little oasis.

5. In time, East Berlin emerged from Stalinist drabness, but as to its material well-being — to say nothing of the repression it endured in the Stasi-dominated society — it was a poor if evolving entity.

6. The war in 1939 perforce ushered in an era of more grime and drabness.

7. She looked at Martha with a fresh insight, noting the drabness of her clothes and the downward droop of her lips!

8. As the months dragged by a new fear cut into the unrelieved drabness of his life and work.

9. We're hopefully on the verge of finding out the correlation between the brightness of some animals and the drabness of others, and hopefully sexism won't play a part.

10. It doesn't help that today is a Sunday, so the usual bustle of hawkers, pedestrians and cars that enliven the empty drabness are missing.