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

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

"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

Instead, they watched gloomily on Wednesday as their path to the Senate majority narrowed while they absorbed unexpected losses in the House.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2020

Tom nodded gloomily and returned to wiping glasses; Harry, Hermione, Hagrid, and the Weasleys walked through the bar and out into the chilly little courtyard at the back where the dustbins stood.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling