The economic picture, with or without American investment, is bleak for the short term.

Once again, the season ahead looks bleak for the Pioneers, who have won 4 games in the past 6 years.

Things were looking rather bleak for the band by the late 1980s.

Whatever happens next, the present is bleak for the nation's workers.

This was indeed too bleak for some to take, even many years later.

And while the current political climate is bleak for Republicans, no one knows what it will be a year from now.

The future was clearly bleak for those left in the fort.

That is particularly difficult in a recession when the future looks bleak for everyone.

Things had never looked so bleak for the American people as in the early 1930s.

The Clinton record is bleak, for example, in the area of privacy.