somber
Example Sentences
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In it, Rousseau acknowledged that it was a "somber day" for his organisation.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
This week began on a somber note with the fatal accident at LaGuardia Airport Sunday night.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
For McDermott, they suggest somber ritual and were, in fact, known in Akhnaten’s Egypt.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
During the last congress, in 2021, a somber Kim admitted to economic failures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
She was walking with her mother, a bespectacled woman in a plum-purple dress, whose long, somber face was shadowed by a straw hat adorned with enough silk violets to plant a garden.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing somber
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