sombre

Example Sentences

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The country's main television channel has this week broadcast songs with sombre melodies and published a photo of Rakhmon on a black background with the quote, "the man of the Sun Dynasty."

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 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

It has culminated in this – a sombre send-off in Sydney.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 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