How to Use depressing in a Sentence

depressing

adjective

• He paints a depressing picture of modern life.
• This rainy weather is depressing.
• This is usually touted as the most depressing time of the year.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2021
• As someone who is used to being able to hop a flight at random, the cancellation was a bit depressing.
  — Danielle Pointdujour, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2020
• The pastel pinks and greens on the disciples’ robes mark a departure from the depressing browns of art that came before him.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 Oct. 2024
• Songbird also has a depressing apathy towards the virus.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Dec. 2020
• Making a somber advertisement could simply be depressing.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Dec. 2020
• This once-beloved commercial neighborhood’s fall into a trashy backwater is a depressing story.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• One of the more depressing things about the Covid-19 pandemic is how little progress the US has made on managing schools.
  — Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
• Billboard watchers settled in for an epic chart battle, if only because everything else happening in the world was unimaginably depressing.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• This game may well have ‘draw’ written all over it, which would be a fine result for the visitors but another depressing day out for the hosts, who lost 3-0 in Argentina last week.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Botch the process slightly and you’re left with a dull, depressing dough.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• My friend just sent me a bunch of pictures of PV Mall, and it’s so depressing.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2021
• The Ultimates #4 is a depressing read, in the best way.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
• There's nothing much on TV except the Olympics, and the Olympics are kind of depressing.
  — Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• But grayters call the color depressing, dull and too safe.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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 concourse was dark and depressing and smelled like pretzels.
  — Forsyth Harmon, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• If this is true, though, there’s a depressing case to be made for a climate package.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
• The reason is, frankly, depressing, as Vosshall, Younger, and their colleagues have found.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024