But by the end of the week, their future looked bleak.

Things had never looked so bleak for the American people as in the early 1930s.

It has to or else the future looks pretty bleak.

In 2007, things began to look bleak on the American stock market.

"The days looked pretty bleak, but Mark never really gave up hope."

The evening was looking much less bleak than it had a couple of hours ago.

So after some 50 years, the future of the 400-seat theater looked bleak.

Things were looking rather bleak for the band by the late 1980s.

He came through just when the night looked bleak with the image of Johnson being helped off the floor.

His future looked bleak until the day a friend took him along on a photo shoot.