Visitors had only one modest 10-room hotel, few paved roads and one drab town.

But even in midsummer, the population of Laguiole, a drab little town of 1,200 inhabitants known for its cutlery and cheeses, does not attract tourists.

Surfing offers this darkly exhilarating novel's protagonist an escape from a drab Australian town.

"Washington is kind of a drab town, and I've never seen it so excited," he said.

So long a target of both artillery and aircraft, the drab towns and cities in and close to the West Wall were a shambles.

The wistful lyrics portray a very British world of drab small towns, shallow hipsters and inevitable disappointments, particularly in romance.

She appears to be thinking, How can I be the glamorous, sophisticated creature that I am and continue to exist in this drab little town?

With war possible in the near future, residents of this drab coastal town seem more resigned than frightened.

The gloomy weather and the drab town had destroyed it little by little; Waldo's comments hadn't helped, either.

Tanta is a drab industrial town on the Nile, halfway between Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.