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
• Don’t let the depressing campaign themes keep you away from the polls.
  — Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
• All of this may sound rather depressing for our quest to find life in the universe.
  — Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
• 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
• And seeing even a preview of that was so depressing for me.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Dec. 2024
• Yesterday was Blue Monday, which is thought of as the most depressing day of the year.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
• 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
• At the same time, a drop in fuel sales forced ethanol plants to shut down, further depressing corn prices.
  — Mike Dorning, Bloomberg.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• The concourse was dark and depressing and smelled like pretzels.
  — Forsyth Harmon, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• Is the idea of many worlds both inspiring and depressing?
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• 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
• This is usually touted as the most depressing time of the year.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2021
• The violence that surged in 2015 and continued at a high rate for nine years was horrifying, tragic and depressing.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 22 Nov. 2024
• Two of the movies feature both Adams and Julianne Moore, and what’s really depressing is that such a phenomenal pairing got wasted on hapless material.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025