sombre
Example Sentences
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It's a sombre end to our time together.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
But the usual party atmosphere surrounding the races has given way to a more muted event and sombre tributes, exactly a month after the January 1 inferno at the bar Le Constellation.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 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
Beauty of Neleus’ daughter put him there and sombre folly the inbreaking Fury thrust upon him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
