gloomily

Example Sentences

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More gloomily, the holiday was observed against a backdrop of continued fighting.

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023

He sighs on his couch and gloomily watches daytime television.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

For the most part, Charon, whose name has never felt more gloomily appropriate, stood at an elegant, watchful remove from the violence of Wick’s world; he was a fixer and a facilitator, not a participant.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2023

"It's been over a month of living with nothing," Neelakka Modem, a tribal woman from the western Indian state of Maharashtra, says gloomily as rain trickles down her rickety plastic tent.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2022

When Elizabeth finished whispering, April shook her. head gloomily.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder