Near the end we were in a dismal period, with my husband in treatment for alcoholism.

Today begins the long dismal period when darkness arrives before supper.

I've come back to pull together a company during this dismal period.

"During this really dismal period for the industry, with orders being deferred and canceled, they're continuing to gain ground."

The Double was followed by a dismal period in the club's history.

It is among the few magazines being started during one of the most dismal periods in magazine publishing.

He led Yukos, once Russia's largest company, through a dismal period.

Russian trade relations with the United States, while forming only a tiny share of both countries' total foreign trade, have gone through some dismal periods.

If anything is funny in this dismal period, it's that the Republicans are touchy about being called heartless and cold.

The rest of the 1990s was a dismal period for Northerns.