"bleak" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

bleak adjetivo

bleak + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 84
bleak picture • bleak landscape • bleak future • bleak place • bleak prospect • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 23
(2) future, time
Kolokacji: 2
1. bleak view = ponury widok bleak view
2. bleak beauty = ponure piękno bleak beauty
3. bleak horizon = ponury horyzont bleak horizon
  • He swung his chair around, swept his gaze around the bleak horizon, and came to rest looking at the huge canvas tent.
  • Every now and then he smiled serenely to himself for no obvious reason as his eyes scanned the bleak horizon.
  • For many Cubans, the nuclear plant was one of the few bright spots on an increasingly bleak economic horizon.
  • Blade looked back over his shoulder toward the flat bleak horizon in that direction.
  • Black dots appeared on the bleak horizon.
  • All that remained were barren moonscapes: in work after work, single rectangles of gray met rectangles of black to form a bleak horizon.
  • Hestler looked again at the bleak horizon.
  • His face retained a perpetual pinched look, and his eyes were dark - as if they always scanned some bleak inner horizon.
  • She had seen this vast storm approaching since it was just a line on the bleak horizon.
  • But the mass Soviet immigration has seemed the one bright spot on an otherwise bleak horizon, an affirmation that the country was still vital and attractive.
4. bleak certainty = ponura pewność bleak certainty
(8) eye, vision
Kolokacji: 2
(9) moment, statistics
Kolokacji: 2
(11) world, reality
Kolokacji: 2
(14) stretch, expanse, space
Kolokacji: 3
(15) land, plain, moor, shore
Kolokacji: 4
(16) sky, economy, atmosphere, wind
Kolokacji: 4
(21) house, street, village
Kolokacji: 3
(22) lyrics, song
Kolokacji: 2
(23) amusement, comedy
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + bleak
Kolokacji: 5
look bleak • grow bleak • turn bleak • sound bleak • feel bleak
adverbio + bleak
Kolokacji: 15
pretty bleak • particularly bleak • equally bleak • increasingly bleak • far bleaker • ...
bleak + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
bleak for • bleak in • bleak with

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