“Sitting on a long couch are three armchair athletes with dour expressions on their faces.”

“The Puritans themselves were men of just as dour convictions as the Scottish Covenanters.”

“School's out in an unnamed Japanese city and dour young Masao is at a loss.”

“My bleakness, I'm afraid, was made dourer still as I felt this exhibition was an opportunity missed.”

“Eis for ELVs Also known as experimental law variations and introduced as law last summer after a trial period, they have been blamed by some for making rugby a dourer affair.”

“Who but the dourest of indie-snob purists could fail to succumb to its heady delights?”

“When he opened his cabin door he was confronted by the dourest aspect of the north that he had yet seen.”

“And so we might, had it not been for the innate depravity of man as exemplified in the dourest driver that ever handled reins.”