Drear in a sentence as an adjective

Night’s drear countenance faced down the light of all that had gone before it; now fading, now flickering, now Extinguished.

The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.

What a drear celebration that'll be. I expect there was just relatively little interest in exploring these things in the past when it was clear humans weren't going anywhere.

This whole economic trap is so undeniably American, it’s hard to deal with the urge to laugh mixed with drear for the people subjected to it :/

Drear definitions

adjective

causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"