A bleak stretch of land lay ahead.

The answer was: on a bleak stretch of road round the northern perimeter of the city.

It's also a bitter fight over real estate that shows even the bleakest stretches here are not spared.

He surveyed the block, which is a bleak stretch.

"As for me, life would have been a pretty bleak stretch, with you left out."

His future lay before him, one bleak stretch of unpleasant duty, to the end of his days.

The company of another living, breathing human would be impossible to bear up on this bleak stretch of moorland.

Standing near a bleak stretch of track, a lonely figure with a lantern awaits an incoming train.

After passing through some bleak modern stretches, he emerges still an optimist about romance, even in marriage.