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Sentence Examples The entire village is in sombre mood, with thoughts turning to the families left bereaved. The daily press conferences became increasingly sombre as the days went past. These are sombre thoughts for anyone interested in current political thought. This chapter has an eerie, sombre feeling which draws their investigation to a close. In youth he also read with deep admiration Sallust's sombre histories of the Roman Republic and the comedies of Terence. It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it. Paradoxically, this show is both mind-numbingly sombre and utterly superficial. His musical palette constantly overflows with colour, never garish yet sometimes opulent and sometimes sombre. The pace is slow and the mood sombre, even dreamy, cut across occasionally by great surges of emotion. After a brief fillip Wall Street went into retreat, cast down by sombre corporate trading news from a range of companies. On a terrace beyond the ravine an umbrageous oak spreads his great boughs indulgently beside the sombre Persian forms. The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur. The venue is outfitted to reflect the Irish name, done out in sombre colours, offset by wood panelling. It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women. In the 1980s her paintings generally became calmer in mood and more sombre in colour. Despite this beautiful and dreamy Titian, the tone continued to be rather sombre. The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones. Despite my sombre and bitter tone, much can be done to improve the relationship between the university and its students. This brilliantly written book isn't entirely flippant, since its humour has a more sombre purpose. I have been in particularly reflective and sombre mood recently, feeling vulnerable to the vagaries of city life. Show More Sentences He had just heard the huntmaster mark the occasion with a sombre valediction, but pledge to continue the tradition of hunting. Amid the hilarious exhilaration of her manifold dislikes, it strikes a sombre note. Some of the scenes turned out to be dismally sombre and somewhat frightening. Brady's carefully-cultivated air of dismissive dourness offset Giles' sombre demeanour perfectly, as it usually does. On Saturday night the mood in the camp was sombre. We were all seriously down. His colour palette was more along the lines of a sombre grey, black, various shades of brown and off-white. A naughty pall of mist has descended on the countryside, but it is far from sombre. Some of the photographs and stories were sombre but overall they sent a positive and inspiring message. Big colours include pink, lime green, bright blues and more sombre chocolate browns and off whites. A sombre mood dominates, so much so that it leaks into the two upbeat tracks. The Codger pointed to a figure dressed in sombre colours, slightly behind and to the right. Striped pants and jackets come in sombre or bold colours, and vertical striped sports shirts in uneven or even patterns. When she painted in Belgium the colours were sombre with a lot of browns and ochres. Indeed, the whole production is dark in terms of both light levels and the sombre browns and greys of the costuming and set. Her husband, on the other hand, wears sombre tones of deep purple and black. The sombre occasion was further enhanced by the dulcet tones of Winnie Joyce. But Stewy seemed to take the comment quite seriously, nodding in sombre sympathy as he tuned up his twelve string. On the subway, commuters wore sombre expressions they would wear on any such Friday. So I hopped out, went out on the veranda and said hello and smiled at everybody, and they were all very sombre and gloomy. But the counterpart to this enthusiasm was a sombre and deeply serious view of such a life's task. Show More Sentences Other writers were equally to popularize the notion of a fundamental watershed, but in tones that encouraged a more sombre mood. You could have gone two ways with this thing and been very sombre and serious about this subject. But you have a sombre, morose side which can mean you going for darker colours and shades. What's more, the sombre, solemn songs are all the more moving for being used only sparingly. Beneath the richly covered buildings lie the sombre underground burial vaults. Wooden chairs with reclined backs and tables on which straw place mats rest are stained in sombre hues. While these cues are sombre, they do have a foot-tapping ambience, if only slow foot-tapping! There were no ranters or rabble-rousers, just an invited audience of academics, writers, politicians and sombre party members. There was quite a bit of tartan, along with the more traditionally sombre garb, and many smiles amidst the tears. But the sombre peace is shattered when a bomb blast is heard shuddering in the distance and the spooks must answer the call of duty. And as the heavens open once again, Travis take to the stage, almost sombre in the evening's half-light. The instrument's melancholy tones complement the often sombre frontier folk songs. Although there is no narrative, the work clearly interprets the music with some sections being quite sombre while others are quite amusing. Another scherzo arabesque contrasts with the sombre seventh canon, which in turn joins on to the alla breve variation. The paintings seem at first to be sombre in tone, coloured mostly by umbers and sepia-like hues. Their one-joke puerility certainly won't please the purists, but once again, it's a perfect antidote to the sombre skies. It was an eerie and sombre scene, a grey warship beneath a leaden sky with the occasional drop of rain falling. When the match was restarted the remaining four minutes were played in a sombre atmosphere. An elegant Siddha on a cave ceiling is done in sombre shades of blue, ranging from off-white to ultramarine, an unusual colour scheme. Moving from darkness to light, Gray sings of loss and love, performing equally well with upbeat optimism as he does with sombre heartbreakers. Show More Sentences There's a sombre mournfulness that suggests deep hurt and painful, reluctant acceptance. The complementing soundtrack, therefore, is a sour mash of sultry but sombre Southern mood music by mostly straight-up bluesmen. And as the heavens open once again, Travis takes to the stage, almost sombre in the evening's half-light. Simultaneously stockbrokers' traditional sombre suits and conservative shirts gave way to flashy turnback cuffs. Also, the rails carried black cords with black tassels hanging down, giving a sombre effect to the wooden coffin clamped to the trolley platform. Parliament was adjourned sine die on a sombre note on Monday, four days ahead of the scheduled end of the monsoon session. As if in respect for the sombre occasion, the weather had undergone one of its sudden shifts in mood. My family's roots are in Lanarkshire, where funerals are typically sombre affairs held in a chapel, followed by a graveside service at a windswept cemetery. There was a noticeable chill in the air and barely a sound to be heard as sombre onlookers waited in the moments before builders began the demolition. Neutral colours can look too bland and dark colours too sombre. Watch for an impressive, sombre solo done with untied pointe shoes. Apparently an attempt at serious literature, it takes the form of a sombre, hard-backed, slim volume, unillustrated and typographically conventional. The morning sunshine gave way to a sombre shroud of grey clouds, which threatened rain but failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the boisterous crowd. There was a mood of sombre but affectionate reflection at Easter Sunday services as churchgoers mourned Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother who had died the previous day. It was a cold morning as workers gathered for the meeting, a sea of black and grey and dark blue jackets, and the mood was as sombre as the colour of the crowd. Violent lilacs, shocking pinks and hot crimson, matching the steamy temperature, mingled with more sombre beige and cream, as the ladies rose to the fashion challenge. Mr Cole remained sombre, straight-faced and silent as the returning officer pronounced Ms Greene, a local school governor, the victor with a 2,000-plus majority. Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties. It takes the form of a sombre, hard-backed, slim volume, unillustrated and typographically conventional, a bit like a hymn book, complete with black ribbon place marker. David's nasal voice managed to sound both sombre and aroused. Show More Sentences The reporters sound stressed, the anchors sombre but unfazed. Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives. The Weeping Meadow is another vast and forbiddingly sombre story about the modern Hellenic nation's painful, mysterious birth from the misty ruins of the early 20th century. But on Friday, during the debate on the dreadful events in New York, the bear pit of partisanship was instantly transformed into a sounding board of sombre national unity. There's something about this rather sombre and over-serious atmosphere that makes a part of me want to ask the most stupid and ridiculous or even offensive questions possible. Similarly, the sombre grey bulk of St Catherine's Church and its plaque may recall the patriot's death to some in the bustling street of stallholders and art students. In a sense, I am least fitted to speak on the vital flame of hope for a better future for our people because I myself am a sombre, solitudinarian being. So, uh, is the uniform jet black and sombre or colourful and gay? But while Bill Alexander's new production has a fine, sombre, subfusc dignity, there were times when I guiltily hungered for a little more playful malevolence. Being a sedate and sombre brunette could get boring eventually. The colours lend a brightness to the grey and sombre winter's afternoon. The narrative is part humorous, part melancholy, and at times so funny that readers have tended if anything to underrate its sombre, even tragic, sweep and range. Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey. But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river. It drew on his experiences in Russia, and was more sombre than much of his earlier fiction. As one speechmaker noted, 'Pride is a protest' and the more sombre march seemed to reect that. A clip in a new vlog shows Sciarra at church in a sombre, dignified black outfit, talking with James Bond. From 1 November 1991 onwards, the music had a sombre violin and a bombastic fanfare. But yesterday the sombre beancounter was prepared to have a bit of a laugh. Taylor of the Manchester Guardian took an interest in his work and encouraged him to move away from the sombre palette he was using. Show More Sentences They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. He's the gregarious, trouble-magnet who's brought some much needed sunshine to the sombre, squabble-filled soapiness of Albert Square. White Libertia lightened the sombre tones set by Dodonaea viscosa Purpurea, in second place to the hummocky forms of green Pittosporum. There is a sombre, almost prayerful quality, about the combination of stanzaic solidity and lament. With its sombre tone, parental guilt, broken homes and selfharm, it'll disappoint anyone expecting the Terminator to turn up and save the day. His sombre conclusion was received in silence, but he did not suggest negotiations and this was effectively an ultimatum which was rejected by the British government. This ident with sombre music was used for S4C Clasuron Fideo in circa. The sombre opening, featuring a funeral procession, was soon replaced by a more uplifting scene as the young Prince Sigfried was comforted and entertained by his friends. Indeed then, there was little sleep there, that night. The next morning broke as a palesome, and rain-scudding greyness, with the sombre clouds riding low in the sky. The dark poems, set in a sombre world of violence, were coolly received by the critics, and he was discouraged from publishing more for a number of years. He created some works along more sombre lines, including Dante Sonata, which symbolised the unending struggle between the children of darkness and the children of light. St Patrick's Day is always a sombre occasion for Pam, from North Shields, as she remembers her dad, who was only 32 when his ship the San Demetrio was sunk. Examples from Classical Literature He entered in the clatter of the shop bell with an air of sombre and vexed exhaustion. Two or three gigantesque meeting-houses, featureless and sombre, domineer over the roofs around them. The effect is striking, and the bold colouring of fesses and chevrons lightens the sombre tone of the mahogany cases. The haggard Morrison followed obediently into a sombre, cool hovel which he would have distained to enter at any other time. Crimson and purple and gold began to shoot through the sombre black and grey. The sombre pines of California and the macro carpa cypress cover thousands of acres. Black Maria, the sombre van in which prisoners are conveyed from the police court to prison. During those few and sombre days which represented the epact of the dying year, Martin Grimbal returned to Chagford. He gazed down at her for a moment with a sombre stare, as one looks at ruins, at the devastation of some natural disaster. I had returned from my adventure on the labour levels in a mood of sombre depression. He seems to find a welcome relief in their inartificial ways from his own weird and sombre fancies. In the castle the Duchess sat in her sombre apartments which she had made as dull, as dreary, as charmless as herself. She was enormously tall and slim, and eccentrically clad in Oriental draperies of some sombre, richly patterned stuff. All the thought of that day is written, in fact, in this sombre, Romanesque style. On some smaller pieces birds of tropically gay plumage were painted upon a sombre chocolate ground. The heir was as woe begone of face and as crassly sombre of raiment as even the most captious could have desired. To add to the sombre aspect of nature incident everywhere to the winter season is the lack, in Ushuaia, of sunshine. Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination. Victoria was in high spirits, and even succeeded in instilling a little cheerfulness into her uncle's sombre Court. The story of the wendigo made the camping-place to be surrounded with a sombre interest to the traders. Show More Sentences A whitebeam at a little distance made a vivid conflagration of green amid the sombre boles of the pines. The lowered physiognomy of Mr Verloc expressed a sombre and weary annoyance. But there was one spot thrown into alto relievo by the sombre drapery of woe. The girls now came to a place where the road dipped through a plantation of sombre sycamore and horsechestnut trees. The music was Gregorian, and performed in its most sombre mood. On several occasions the sled was overturned, and they were compelled to reload it with its sombre freight. It was itself like a great human heart, with a life of its own, and full of rich and sombre reminiscences. At this he looked with sombre intelligence and set it carefully aside. His voice was sombre, because he had a correct sentiment of the situation. I remember it as a kind of half chaise-cart, half pianoforte-van, painted of a sombre colour, and drawn by a black horse with a long tail. The sombre elms were too well-ordered, the meadows too carefully tended. He was a man of little more than middle-age, powerfully built, inclined to be sombre, with features of a legal type, heavily jawed. I recognized, under the cowl, the thin, sallow face and the sombre eyes. He found, however, that all the under servants had been given a holiday ashore by the autocrat Paul, and that only the sombre Mrs. George bowed his head, dusty and sombre, exhaling the peculiar smell of one who has handled furniture. Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existance for him. A sombre rage possessed them, and gave to their hearts a giant's daring. Be brave now, for my story is going to be truly sombre and shuddery. The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless. Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green. Show More Sentences Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish. He could see nothing in front but the twin sombre walls of pine and the wedge of starlit sky above them. There were still several hours of grey daylight and sombre twilight, and he utilised them in chopping an enormous supply of fire-wood. The Bishop of Wolverhampton, the Right Rev Michael Bourke, has joined other critics of God Save the Queen who say it is too slow and sombre. The library at Devenham Castle was a large and sombre apartment, with high oriel windows and bookcases reaching to the ceiling. In all that pertained to a sombre monotony, Kellett's Court was a convent. His mind was sombre and pietistic, and his imagination bizarre and vivid. In a minute or so the trees grew thinner, and I emerged upon a bare, low headland running out into the sombre water. The andante is religioso, and is fervent rather than sombre. It speaks of wood or stream, of billowed sky, and now of sombre shadow. She smiled up at him provocatively and his sombre face lightened. The darkness enfolded her like the enervating caress of a sombre universe. I had an unpleasant mental vision of the dark road, of the sombre grounds, and the desolately suspicious aspect of that home of necromancy and intrigue and feminist adoration. As they marched they beat two great drums which were likewise draped in black, and beside them came the fife player, black and sombre like the others. The Black Book was a sombre volume in which the names of boys were written with their misdeeds, and when a name was down three times it meant a caning. The captain of the brig, who sat in the stern sheets by my side with his face in his hands, raised his head and began to speak with a sort of sombre volubility. The dress was a sombre grayish beige, untrimmed and unbraided, and she wore a small turban of the same dull hue, relieved only by a suspicion of white feather in the side. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. Grave, dignified, sombre, a laugh made him frantic to ridiculousness. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sombre? Words that rhyme with sombre What is the past tense of sombre? What is the plural of sombre? What is the adverb for sombre? What is the adjective for sombre? What is the noun for sombre? Translations for sombre Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words somberness somberly somber somatropin somatotyping somatotype sombrely sombreness sombrero sombreros some somebodies 6-letter Words Starting With s so som somb sombr