How To Use Gloom In A Sentence

It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.

Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
So why all the doom and gloom? The Sun
Given how gloomy people are about the eurozone, it might not take much. Times, Sunday Times
I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
She doesn't want you to spoil them by looking gloomy and funereal. Times, Sunday Times
Il volto sciolto ed i pensieri stretti," declared Giuseppe with gloom. The Red Redmaynes
A spokesman for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party called the cabinet shuffle "a futile exercise which inspires none and in no way dispels the gloom shadowing" Mr. Singh's government, according to Press Trust of India. India Fires Environment Minister Who Held Up Projects
Instead of doom and gloom, we need to look at it as an opportunity to turn the season around. Times, Sunday Times
This might not seem like a ringing endorsement of war, but it contrasted with his gloomy assessments in the previous year.
The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would. Sir Charles Grandison
Love unexpressed is sacred. It'shines like gems in the gloom the hidden heart.
This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited; for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed.
The world's largest chip maker gave a gloomy forecast for the first quarter.
Elsewhere the drinkers sat in darkness, an umbrous gloom through which the orange flame of an occasional candle started.
Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
Given how gloomy people are about the eurozone, it might not take much. Times, Sunday Times
It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Practice periods that end in gloom and despondency must be avoided - they have the opposite effect of reinforcing or "conditioning" helplessness. The Secrets of Musical Confidence
In his letters, as in conversation, he offers himself no sanctuary, and the picture we are left to gather is an exaggeration of the facts: cold, hard, captious, rarely affectionate, often gloomy.
On a gloomier note, employment continued to decline and car sales remained depressed.
Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday, as nervy investors caught sight of more gloomy economic data on the US horizon.
And they will want to win to banish match-fixing gloom. The Sun
Thus the word "nevermore," a gloomy, terrible word, comes into his mind, and he proceeds to brood over it. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
And when the silent darkness enveloped all this beauty, and grandeur, and magnificence in undistinguishable gloom, my mind experienced that wonderful sense of freedom and relief which come from all that suggests the idea of boundlessness -- the deep sky, the dark night, the endless circle, the illimitable waters. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier.
Italian turned out to be silly, while the Welshman recalled the gloomier imaginings of the BRONTËS, and in the event came by an appropriately violent end. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916
He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse. The Wife
This lifts the ambience of a room which might otherwise be gloomy during the day. Times, Sunday Times
He was sunk in deep gloom at the prospect of being alone.
This isn't the first time Medicare has been given a gloomy prognosis.
Ross watched her deteriorate in gloomy and unreproving silence. The Second Generation
Perhaps even the gloomy cloud hanging over the manufacturing industry has a silver lining.
The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.
The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
The official listening figures appear to tell a much gloomier story. Times, Sunday Times
The women in her Last Supper prints are grouped in twos and threes, dressed in reds and blues, and emerge from a gloomy background in a way that echoes the famous Renaissance fresco.
It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye. Sons and Lovers
A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker. Stay Well This Winter
There were gloomy predictions that the weather would deter buyers, but on the day a lengthy queue had formed an hour before the doors opened. Times, Sunday Times
His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
Teased by the gloom, I peered through its sandwich of heaped rings, trinkets and protective glass.
It is not all doom and gloom. The Sun
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Today, this circle of gloomy old trees is still extant. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
The pound is in the doldrums and economic forecasts are gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
It was a dim, twilit gloom filled the enormous tunnels, muffling all hints of life within them.
There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy.
Did he outsit the maids and men around his hearth and watch the dying fire with no other companions than his sleeping dogs, fancy placed a scar-let-cloaked figure on the cushion at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness, whose flower-blue eyes brightened or gloomed in response to his lightest mood ... The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.
Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
Entering through the low door, they saw opposite them above a fireplace two swords sheathed in their scabbards, glittering in the gloom.
Wednesday was pushing it, but it would force him to dig -himself out of the irremediable gloom into which he had sunk. AMAGANSETT
But, the humanity for own benefit, suffers now her gloomily.
It was what the poets mean by an 'inspissated' gloom; it thickened day by day, as hope and self-confidence evaporated in thin clouds of disappointment. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom, its legs brushing her cheek.
That's why the droop and crinkle of middle-age is the source of such gloom, particularly as it has a nasty habit of catching you unawares.
As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea? St. Elmo
I knew exactly what was wrong - I was radiating a sort of pessimism and gloom that was clearly undermining their confidence.
Into this gloomy atmosphere came a national drive by preservationists and conservationists to create national parks and forests in the eastern United States.
It had dawned overcast and gloomy, with just a glimmer of light to the south.
The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
At the moment the area is gloomy and uninspiring, with grey concrete walls and floor.
IF all of a sudden this morning you find your world plunged into darkness and gloom, do not fear. The Sun
Elsewhere, analysts saw little respite for battered tech and telecoms shares, which have struggled amid the gloomy corporate earnings picture.
We've been hit by a tsunami of gloom and doom.
There have been some bright spots amid the gloom. Times, Sunday Times
and an overall luminescence far removed from the pervading gloom she was used to. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Sarah walked over to the antique dresser and mirror set and assumed a gloomy appearance. ‘After all, my grandmother just died,’ she thought.
Our eyes couldn't penetrate the dark/the gloom of the inner cave.
Since then there has been a Piano Concerto in C minor, theme music for any situation requiring a sufficiently heady mixture of passion and gloom.
Beneath the kitsch of the souvenir shops, Lourdes is raw and elemental; situated in rather gloomy inward-looking craggy mountains.
The morale-boosting victory lifted the gloom hanging over the club amid the uncertainty surrounding its future.
Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck.
Yet despite this gloom, there are signs of a turnaround in the economy. Times, Sunday Times
Although it is variously described as a devouring beast that is never satisfied (see Proverbs 27:20) and a gloomy abode (see Job 10:21), it was not a place of punishment, but rather the destiny of all human souls. Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
Shell painted a gloomy picture across most of its businesses. Times, Sunday Times
There is still a risk that dwindling household spending power and gloomy consumer sentiment will derail this recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Philip's gloom deepens when he finds a letter from Mr Plumb to his mother.
The fire gave the nautical furnishings a warm glow, banishing at least part of the rainy gloom that had followed him from Norfolk. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
Light and dark, the sun and the moon - don't let these dualities lead you to gloom.
I didn't apply myself, preferring to spend most of high school in a gloom, so I got only average results except in English.
There was confusion, and gloom and sorrow, and curiosity among the domestics, while the retainers of the law went from place to place, making an inventory of the goods and chattels falling under their warrant of distress, or poinding, as it is called in the law of Scotland. The Antiquary
The gloom on leaving La Paz was instantly dispelled by the views on gaining the Altiplano.
It was going to fight the bill all the way to its doomy, gloomy grave.
He sat down gloomily behind his desk to await custom.
Rain and gloomy weather are thought more likely to increase blood pressure because of stress. Times, Sunday Times
The paths often passed through these rocky clefts, which in the depths of the forest were gloomy and dark in the extreme, and often full of fine-leaved herbaceous plants and curious blue-foliaged Lycopodiaceae. The Malay Archipelago
The official listening figures appear to tell a much gloomier story. Times, Sunday Times
Peering downwards, praying she hadn't just inadvertently trampled on Zebedee or Orlando or little Tallulah in the gloom, she grinned. TICKLED PINK
Instead, Cindy was stuck staring gloomily out the window as rain steadily beat against it.
In the gloom I could only just discern the outline of a building.
He was deep in gloom because his girlfriend had gone away.
So how does this rather gloomy picture fit with the aims of the ethical investor? Times, Sunday Times
He didn't make points that could be addressed, but yammered on with rambling gloom. Times, Sunday Times
They were halted again at a gloomy gateway where an officer came out to look them over; by his leave they left the gharry and followed him under the arch until their heels rang on stone paving in a big ill-lighted courtyard surrounded by high walls. In The Time Of Light
Would that, for the sake of herself and her beautiful daughter ... would that for the sake of public morality, Mrs. Robinson were persuaded to dismiss the gloomy phantom of annihilation; to think seriously of a future rebribution; and to communicate to the world a recantation of errors that originated in levity, and have been nursed by pleasure. Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
Set high in the wall was a window, which was covered by a thick iron grille, making the room gloomy and airless. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
The light was gloomy even through the image-intensifying sniperscope he was using as a telescope. THE LAST RAVEN
Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter.
Her trainer was even more gloomy about the prospects for British tennis.
Still, we mellow out round the fire, toasting marshmallows and muttering into the gloom.
For many, his indispensable contribution is to have lightened the gloom and moral bankruptcy of those years.
At the NCB event RBS stressed that it did not accept the gloomy prognosis for the Irish economy that is prevalent in the British media.
His neighbor, a cabinetmaker, helped him rehang the sign outside, but he had no money to have the board over the front window replaced with glass, so the interior of the shop was gloomier than usual.
Passengers were gloomy this morning, I said ‘bismillah’ to myself before stepping onto the 8.33 to Kings Cross.
Now, don't start to get gloomy.
The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
People are also gloomy about the general economic situation, while confidence in the economy growing was little better. The Sun
`If you ask me," he said gloomily, `the red-brick seems not so much Ivy League as in league with the ivy. A DEAD LIBERTY
Her face was barely discernible in the gloom.
It is not as gloomy as people think. The Sun
And in the midst of the unending gloom in the economy, Britons increasingly are turning back to childhood pleasures. Times, Sunday Times
When the minister in Hawthorne's story donned the veil, ‘its gloom… enabled him to sympathise with all dark affections.’
In yonder gloomy grove out-ftretch'd he lay His lovely limbs upon the dampy clay; The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
Maybe “morosely” or “gloomily” would fit in better. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
Laughter gets rid of gloom, aggravation, depression, worry - all forms of tension.
This gloomy picture I hold up, not as a prophecy of the fate we are doomed to incur, but only as descriptive of what the term subjugation unquestionably imports. A Discourse Before the General Assembly of South Carolina, on December 10, 1863: Appointed By the Legislature as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
But it could not be so gloomy in the kind sunlight as it was when lashed by the savage storm which we had seen it cowering under before; and at the station we lost all feeling of friendlessness in the welcome of the thronging guides and hotel touters. Familiar Spanish Travels
All I heard was a loud screech of tires and a loud crash of thunder that echoed gloomily through my thoughtless mind.
A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
such a change is gloomily foreseen by many
But even those few cafes at street level wallow in an atmosphere of brumal gloom so dense that, even at midday, you have to peer at the menu to make it out.
Once she casts off the self-parodying gloom of her early scenes, we see why she is so often called ‘luminous.’
A bishop and his acolyte attend her, while courtiers in black robes emerge from the gloom on either side of the bed.
They passed out of the grasses and through the trees, the gloom set - tling down about them in layers. The Elf Queen of Shannara
It cast a gloomy atmosphere around the station, which did not enhance her mood.
The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
But there are always things to lighten the gloom and one must be very disciplined and focus hard on them. Times, Sunday Times
The D minor Quartet is by far the most tragic of the six, with a piercing sadness that sometimes borders on gloominess.
You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants. The Pools of Silence
Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common.
Surely it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Christianity Today
The sky, a gloomy purple, was overlapped by stratus sheets of blue-black clouds.
His was a gloomy and melancholy disposition and he never found relief outside his work.
Although the jalousies are painted green, the interiors are not gloomy. In fact, the grass green color becomes more luminous in certain light and particularly when reflected off the plaster ceilings.
One view is that, during economic gloom, the arts offer escapism. Times, Sunday Times
Talk with optimistic and encouraging people for they bring a sense of hope into the world, a new meaning to life. They help you see past the clouds on a glooming day, they bring sunlight everyday.
In the gathering gloom it was difficult to see anything distinctly.
The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.
For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess.
The room was all dark and gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
Even then the gloom was such that the scoreboard shone like Piccadilly Circus on a wet night while both batsmen and fielders needed radar to sight the ball.
A few pages of his book transports me back to the rivers of summer, and away from the gloom of November. Times, Sunday Times
And yet even with nothing but a future looming with gloomy forebodings, they repopulated the barren wasteland of space, bracing for the worst, testing the extents of their tenacity and ingenuity.
So I hopped out, went out on the veranda and said hello and smiled at everybody, and they were all very sombre and gloomy.
Finally he pointed out that history provides a gloomy prognosis.
It was not all gloom yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.
The problem is the story, which seems relentlessly gloomy and downbeat, lacking moments of breakdown and reconciliation that were so crucial to previous successes.
The surveys may not exactly have been a champagne moment but they were a welcome antidote to the gloom. Times, Sunday Times
Through the distorted glass of the windows the flurries of snow continued to dance and swirl, the grey light turning the room to a place of gloom and shadows.
London investors shrugged off gloomy jobless news. The Sun
Millions of people are heading off by road, rail and air today for a great British Bank Holiday getaway - despite a gloomy weather forecast.
Malthus' gloomy picture of human life seems to many contemporary commentators much too atomistic and adversarial.
Theodore isn't with us to partake in our celebration of his cerebrated gloom but, as he would be the first to tell you, take heart -- as long as there is death, there is hope. Brother Theodore Centenary
He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
Her celebrations lit up a gloomy day but it was her interview afterwards on Racing UK which impressed me most. The Sun
But the fpear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his fword lopped off his head, as it bended in death. The Poems of Ossian
You know Albert would rather eat his own head than miss an opportunity to revel in a bit of doom and gloom. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
An attempt to escape reality (her home and life are very gloomy now) and retreat into this mystical meditative "place", instead of believing God and His concrete Word will help you to face reality, as an overcomer. The Better Part
The apes, saturated and peaceful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs. Autumn
-- 'Specimens of the British Poets', by Thomas Campbell, London, 1819, ii. 134, 'sq'.] [Footnote 5: Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset [1637-1706], esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, was alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
So much speculation on doom and gloom. The Sun
The impressions his mind had received while passing the churchyard, now returned upon him with added gloom; a kind of misgiving came over him; and a thousand boding thoughts haunted him like spirits, and hanging, as it were, on his heart, dragged it down farther and farther at every step. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828
A batch of gloomy economic data damaged confidence and dampened consumer spending. Times, Sunday Times
Before the referendum he ignored impartiality to spread gloom about Brexit. Times, Sunday Times
There was a feeling of gloom and depression in the office when the news of the job cuts was announced.
Only the fact that inflation was slowing brightened the gloomy picture. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom some immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul.
Instead of doom and gloom, we need to look at it as an opportunity to turn the season around. Times, Sunday Times
Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
And there befel between them great fight and sore fray and the sword went round in sway and there was much said and say; nor did they leave fighting till fled the day and gloom came, when they drew from one another away. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It's not all doom and gloom, though. Times, Sunday Times
The day was dark and gloomy; lights burned in the hall and lit the fanlight. THE PROMISE IN A KISS
His eyes were focussed somewhere off in the deepening gloom.
In the gloom men moved about holding torches like human glow worms. COVER STORY
Oh! the pains I have been at to dispel those gloomy ideas and give him cheerfuller views! Emma
A figure emerged from the gloom of the corridor.
This, and the story in "Arachne," how she let him touch the tea-kettle; and the reminiscences in "Præterita" of playthings locked up, and a lone little boy staring at the water-cart and the pattern on the carpet -- all these give a gloomy impression of his mother, against which we must set the proofs of affection and kindliness shown in her letters. The Life of John Ruskin
What visitors fed on the tabloid media diet of gloom and despondency might find surprising are the smiles and laughter they will encounter. Times, Sunday Times
The gloomy atmosphere in the office oppressed her.
Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited; for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed.
The streets were damp and gloomy, rain streaming beneath sodium street lamps like showers of orangeade.
She fell suddenly silent again, and sat gloomy and staring at the endless procession of gum trees as the train lumbered on through that fantastic forest, which made her think of all kinds of ridiculous things. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
Bettman wants certain high-profile owners to be vocal about small markets and paint a doom-and-gloom financial picture.
gloom pervaded the office
shadowy figures in the gloom
It was a wet and gloomy day.
The number of rebels was far in excess of even the most gloomy government forecast.

How To Use Gloom In A Sentence

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