Short of money and mourning his best friend's suicide, he was painting bleak indoor scenes in shades of blue.

As bleak a scene as it was, though, there was promise in it.

Other photographs contain discrete words or phrases, parts of signs, that are at odds with the bleak scene.

A bleak scene outside where it was raining hard, and he felt bleak inside.

It was a bleak and ominous scene, barbaric and deadly.

Adele said, her eyes scanning the bleak scene.

His voice rising over the bleak scene of horror was one of tremulous beauty.

The hangar itself offered a bleak scene.

The bleak, bright, bare-walled scene of an interrogation cell flashed across my mind, triggered by the word persuade.

So if you intend to paint a cold, bleak, winter scene, the grey would be an ideal choice.