gloomily

Example Sentences

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"I feel that we are disastrously losing this game. And I think it's going to get worse," David added gloomily.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

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

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Within emotional parameters that other actors might have found gloomily constricting, Nighy coaxes forth a tour de force of understatement, suffused with an almost musical melancholy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Across the country, British customers were greeted this past week by signs posted in the windows of gloomily empty branches.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Assuming this had something to do with his headless rubber haddock, Harry proceeded gloomily to the teacher’s desk.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling