glumly

Example Sentences

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"We had so many before," his father Mustafa laments glumly as he proudly explains this business has been in their family for 40 years.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

You can almost hear the blades on the ice, glumly slashing through the final motions of a night expected to end so differently.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

But when she’s not signing books for her faithful readers, Carol glumly disparages her jackpot premise as if it’s a badly written “Star Trek” episode.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

Will Tracy’s script, an adaptation of the glumly funny 2003 Korean satire “Save the Green Planet!” is itself a study of online brain rot, which has become exponentially more perilous over the last two decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

Then I sat at my vanity and glumly counted one hundred strokes of the hairbrush.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly