sombre
Example Sentences
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It's a sombre moment for Silicon Valley and the implications are global.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
But the usual party atmosphere surrounding the races has given way to a more muted event and sombre tributes, exactly a month after the January 1 inferno at the bar Le Constellation.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
Laschet added, in a sombre opening speech: "If Europe is not competitive economically it will not, in the long-term, have the financial basis, the technological basis, the industrial basis to guarantee its security."
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026
Other Yemeni officials shown in the footage appeared sombre.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
Overhead there hung a heavy roof, sombre and featureless, and light seemed rather to be failing than growing.'
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
