DRAB in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for DRAB, such as:

1. But smuts fall and blacken on the drab stucco, that has long ceased to be golden.
2. Oozing out from every drab wall, she felt a forbidding spirit which she could never conquer.
3. Rendered complete by drab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respectability.
4. The Dutch woman's drab winter coat contrasted with the distinctive, colorful native costume she wore beneath it.
5. A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRAB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drab
 a.  dull; lacking color; lacking in liveliness, charm, or surprise
Classic Sentence:
1  In it was an old woman with a lip full of snuff and a weather-beaten face under a drab sunbonnet, driving a dawdling old mule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Oozing out from every drab wall, she felt a forbidding spirit which she could never conquer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Thinking of Hugh's teething all the way, she did not reflect that this store, these drab blocks, made up all her background.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  drab cottages, artificial stone bungalows, square painty stolidities with immaculate clapboards and broad screened porches and tidy grass-plots.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
7  Simeon Halliday, a tall, straight, muscular man, in drab coat and pantaloons, and broad-brimmed hat, now entered.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  But still one little trio was pattering about on tiny feet, alert drab mites, under the straw shelter, refusing to be called in by the anxious mother.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  She took the little drab thing between her hands, and there it stood, on its impossible little stalks of legs, its atom of balancing life trembling through its almost weightless feet into Connie's hands.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  But smuts fall and blacken on the drab stucco, that has long ceased to be golden.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  Well, tea-pot's in there'--he pointed to a little, drab corner cupboard; 'an' cups.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  He was dressed in a smartly-cut snuff-coloured coat, with large brass buttons; an orange neckerchief; a coarse, staring, shawl-pattern waistcoat; and drab breeches.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
14  Rendered complete by drab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respectability.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
15  A terrible, seething welter of ugly life it seemed: not at all the flat drabness it looked from outside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  The Dutch woman's drab winter coat contrasted with the distinctive, colorful native costume she wore beneath it.
2  A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.