gloom

Watch highlights as Harry Brook shines in the Headingley gloom as England build a commanding 195-run lead over Pakistan on a shortened second day of the first Test.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Sorenson and Lizzie Silvers were about to tie the knot at an outdoor ceremony when a group of tipsy young men stumbled in out of the gloom, tittering at discovering nuptials in progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Looking across the city, only a few patches of light survive, scattered in the gloom.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside the industry.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

In the gloom, she could barely make out anything in the two open rooms, but they were very plainly empty.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011

While Lowrance glooms over gold's fickle ways, he is suddenly surrounded by gold-jacketed runners and other traders clad in bright red, green and purple coats.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's."

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Germany is defeated, they gloomed, consumer interest will turn from clothes, which have been relatively plentiful, to goods that will go into production when the war pinch eases.

From Time Magazine Archive

"How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson.

From Time Magazine Archive

James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course.

From Time Magazine Archive

Icons gloomed from the porticoes or raised stiff fingers in the glinting chapels.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021

After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: A green glooming fluid in a sticky bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr