How To Use Gloomy In A Sentence

It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
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

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She doesn't want you to spoil them by looking gloomy and funereal. 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 world's largest chip maker gave a gloomy forecast for the first quarter.
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"
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.
Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday, as nervy investors caught sight of more gloomy economic data on the US horizon.
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
Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier.
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
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 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 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
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.
Today, this circle of gloomy old trees is still extant. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
The pound is in the doldrums and economic forecasts are gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy.
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.
Elsewhere, analysts saw little respite for battered tech and telecoms shares, which have struggled amid the gloomy corporate earnings picture.
Sarah walked over to the antique dresser and mirror set and assumed a gloomy appearance. ‘After all, my grandmother just died,’ she thought.
Beneath the kitsch of the souvenir shops, Lourdes is raw and elemental; situated in rather gloomy inward-looking craggy mountains.
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
It was going to fight the bill all the way to its doomy, gloomy grave.
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
So how does this rather gloomy picture fit with the aims of the ethical investor? 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
Her trainer was even more gloomy about the prospects for British tennis.
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.
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
It is not as gloomy as people think. The Sun
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
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
A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
It cast a gloomy atmosphere around the station, which did not enhance her mood.
Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common.
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.
The room was all dark and gloomy. 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.
The problem is the story, which seems relentlessly gloomy and downbeat, lacking moments of breakdown and reconciliation that were so crucial to previous successes.
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.
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
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
-- '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
A batch of gloomy economic data damaged confidence and dampened consumer spending. Times, Sunday Times
Only the fact that inflation was slowing brightened the gloomy picture. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
The day was dark and gloomy; lights burned in the hall and lit the fanlight. THE PROMISE IN A KISS
Oh! the pains I have been at to dispel those gloomy ideas and give him cheerfuller views! Emma
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
The gloomy atmosphere in the office oppressed her.
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
It was a wet and gloomy day.
The number of rebels was far in excess of even the most gloomy government forecast.
Why is the outlook suddenly more gloomy? Times, Sunday Times
I find this painting rather gloomy and dour. Times, Sunday Times
Critics cast their gloomy predictions over the expedition. The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy
This morning, there has been no rain, but the sky still looks dark and gloomy.
This gloomy forecast will bring zero comfort to the thousands of flood victims braced for yet more rain. The Sun
There have recently been gloomy forecasts of lost jobs. Times, Sunday Times
An elaborate mantelpiece framed the hearth in a dizzying array of swirls and curlicues, and a tall grandfather clock lurked in the corner like a brooding sentry, counting out the seconds with a gloomy tock, tock, tock.
But being editor is not all about gloomy forecasts. Times, Sunday Times
The wet conditions and gloomy outlook are likely to be the same tomorrow. The Sun
JUST now we have bright moonlight nights and sharp blue sunny days. Contrast that with the gloomy days of the previous three weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Fans of gloomy, bloodthirsty action movies will probably be entertained.
We explored lots of gloomy, wet and dark alleys.
He then proceeded to make a little speech about the spirit of the age, and the influence of routine, which he described as a gloomy gnome. The Three Clerks
A good choice for the "gloomy days" of winter, readers will no doubt think of the tunnels they're coursing through when they consider the "o'er darkened ways made for our searching": John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads
Lucia looked outside and saw grey smoldered clouds glooming over her house, the redness of dawn shined behind its gloomy mask.
a dark gloomy day
It was dark and gloomy and he could not see very well past the torrent of cascading water.
The gloomy atmosphere of the church radiated around the pedestal.
There is a glimmer of hope to the gloomy winter outlook. Times, Sunday Times
The gloomy weather shows no sign of improving.
Today, this circle of gloomy old trees is still extant. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
The interior was gloomy; tobacco smoke hung motionless in the thin air.
But being editor is not all about gloomy forecasts. Times, Sunday Times
He gave the Cabinet a deeply gloomy prognosis about the effects of prolonged conflict on an already stuttering world economy.
The room was all dark and gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
They then scurried into the shadows provided in a dark and gloomy alley.
One site that does a quality job (however sobering and gloomy) of collecting dismal dots to connect, is so-called Mike Ruppert's so-called blog. Take me out to the shell game (Jack Bog's Blog)
And as fans reeled at the blow to our Cup hopes, some experts made the gloomy prediction that his football career may be over for good. The Sun
The cramped room was dark and gloomy, a faint stream of gentle light streaming through the grimy window.
Instead, right-to-die advocates project their own gloomy estimation of the worth of human life on to these poor souls.
The gloomy prospect of unemployment and poverty, of insecurity and war is frightening us.
_ -- It was, no doubt, by way of brightening an unutterably gloomy week that Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE, who has not hitherto been known as a humourist, invited the Government to intercede at Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
If by now you imagine yourself spending your day in dark, gloomy caves, staring at bones, you can forget about it.
The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
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
As a painter he is best known for dramatic and sinister architectural views, with figures dwarfed by their gloomy surroundings.
The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
The wet conditions and gloomy outlook are likely to be the same tomorrow. The Sun
Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Vanity Fair
It was black or dark like tar, and sentineled to the east and north by tall, dark pines — the serried spears of armed and watchful giants, as they now seemed to him — ogres almost — so gloomy, suspicious and fantastically erratic was his own mood in regard to all this. An American Tragedy
The alternative comedian combines the story of his mother 's ailing health with hits by the gloomy singersongwriter. Times, Sunday Times
All of a sudden, the gloomy atmosphere of the time stop disappeared.
As a result, they can often be gloomy, and shadows on stairs can be dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
The images of the cloudy and gloomy archetypes in Mauriac's novels consist of the waste land, Erebos, fog and fire, and so on.
Even gloomy January is a good time to visit the region - at the end of the month, every village celebrates the feast of Saint Vincent, the patron saint of winegrowers.
Only the fact that inflation was slowing brightened the gloomy picture. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
That is meant to be a funny concept because we think of existentialists as gloomy, Gitanes-smoking French guys who sip coffee all day on the Left Bank.
First of all, his lank, angular appearance combined with his monotone voice and gloomy disposition aren't very soothing and reassuring.
Beck has followed up 1999's electro-manic "Midnite Vultures" with a return to gloomy acoustic mode (just as he followed his antic breakthrough "Odelay" with the penitentially somber "Mutations"). Fall Arts Preview: Music
It is hard not to be gloomy about the economy given the headwinds we are facing. Times, Sunday Times
She had had enough of that dark dispirited house with its gloomy, self-flagellatory paintings and its almost relentless aura of doom. Beneath an opal moon
The gloomy conclusion of these studies was that while certainty was impossible until the horrific moment, it looked like a suborbital nuclear air blast could zap our system into uselessness. How the End Begins
In something of the same spirit -- but with a hatred to the German philosopher such as men are represented as feeling towards the gloomy enchanter, Zamiel or whomsoever, by whose hateful seductions they have been placed within a circle of malign influences -- did I at times revert to Kant: though for me his power had been of the very opposite kind; not an enchanter's, but the power of a disenchanter -- and a disenchanter the most profound. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
'Sad day that would be,' Hugh said, dismissing the possibility, but when he listened closely to what officers from Carolina and Alabama were whispering, he was forced into a gloomy conclu - sion: Yes, I can imagine a mess when Virginians like me might be goaded into forming a union of our own where the traditions of the South would be preserved. Legacy
I have probably been sounding a bit gloomy about the prevailing moral climate recently but I remain undaunted.
On this gloomy autumn day, there were gray and yellowish skies lowering over the rooftops of Warsaw.
Myri slowly pushed the right-hand door open, allowing a slither of light to pierce the gloomy room.
In the demographic campaign, the cities were described in the most gloomy terms.
Thousands of visitors poured into York over the Golden Jubilee Bank Holiday - bringing cheer to businesses coping with gloomy figures.
Venetian senator, the gloomy "magnifico" of St. Mark, have consented to Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
Anyway, the charm was meant to bring true happiness and I'm sure a gloomy cold person like Ian would need some of that.
WHEN the economy is gloomy there can be temptation to cut corners and play it safe. The Sun
I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
State racing executives, however, continued to paint a gloomy picture of the industry's near-term future.
He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
Once unleashed by its gloomy keeper Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the squirmy sea monster is ready to devour Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) and destroy the rebellious city of Argos.
Last weekend's wet, wild and woeful trip to gloomy south Wales did turn out to have a silver lining for at least one Borders player.
If candy machine builders get too gloomy, they may stop building machines.
On the trading front, the picture remains gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
II. iii.309 (63,9) [To the dark house] The _dark house_ is a house made gloomy by discontent. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
As the day progresses, the weather starts to take on a gloomy appearance, with dark, gray clouds moving in, covering up the sky and diffusing the sunlight.
Some one who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy.
But by then I was being buzzed into the gloomy hall of a shuttered old apartment building. Times, Sunday Times
Around the same time, the term ‘gloomy old men’ gained popularity with stand-up comics, and the previously lauded workingmen with brows knit from their laborious efforts fell out of favor and were no longer respected.
Thus some complain that it is a gloomy religion; others go to the opposite extreme and accuse it of pointing to a state of perpetual chocolate cream; yet again it is attacked on grounds of effeminancy, it is upbraided as being fond of a sickly sentimentalism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It's a combination of guilt and a deeply entrenched gloomy outlook on life - both of which I'm trying to let go of, with varied success.
At a time when so many prognostications about the future condition of the planet seem unrelievedly gloomy, Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison remind us that we are still masters of our fate.
The sea is sparkling, the drowned city is dark, and gloomy.
The selling agent admits she hasn't even set foot in the dark, dank basement, and the rest of the accommodation is almost as gloomy.
Swashbuckling forward play which illuminated the gloomy wasteland of the National League has been rationed to tantalising glimpses.
Outside it slowly got darker, a gloomy purple descending on the car as it stood in the empty lot.
The moment Qambar's hard, sly face appeared on the screen, the gloomy living room lit up with hoots, howls, clapping and whistling.
While most experts consider the problem severe, others say the gloomy forecasts are based on overly conservative projections of economic growth.
Trembling the while, Ogger, who knew by experience what were the power and might of Charles, and who had learned the lesson by long consuetude in better days, then said, 'When ye shall behold the crops shaking for fear in the fields, and the gloomy Po and the Ticino overflowing the walls of the city with their waves blackened with steel The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
Rousseau's "antimodern tunnel vision," Mr. Potter says, can be found in various modern forms: in the views of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, for instance; or in such gloomy social critics as Al Gore and Prince Charles and alarmists like James Howard Kunstler. Why It's So Hard To Get Real
They say it is too gloomy, too dark, not a happy subject.
A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
the gloomy forest
Gloomy News for Arecibo is the next entry in this blog. Mike Griffin Seems To Be A little Confused - NASA Watch
An overland journey would keep her off the pirate-infested sea, but the south of Italy was a gloomy enigma, the haunt of unregenerate pagans and lawless outcasts from the coastal towns.
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.
Meanwhile the master of the house presents himself with a disturbed and gloomy countenance, and doubts much whether we can have any dinner to-day, because no one will sell anything, either for copper or silver; moreover hints darkly that they expect a _copper pronuniciamiento_ to-morrow; and observes that the shops are shut up. Life in Mexico
As a result, they can often be gloomy, and shadows on stairs can be dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
If the economy were to have a weather forecast, the outlook would be overcast: gloomy with patches of rain for the next five years. Times, Sunday Times
There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it.
I detect a hint of I - told - you - so smugness about some of the gloomy advance commentary on Copenhagen.
There was hardly a light in the place; the dimness set a gloomy atmosphere in the office.
Scandinavian writers, for instance, ought to be gloomy and wear jumpers as heavy as their social conscience. Times, Sunday Times
For all the quality of the work on display, though, this is one of the worst-hung exhibitions I've ever seen - the pictures packed into low, underlit rooms, the walls painted in gloomy and overbearing colours.
Why is the outlook suddenly more gloomy? Times, Sunday Times
Shehnaz held her daughter's hand tightly lest destiny snatch her only child - the sole ray of hope in her otherwise gloomy life.
Only the fact that inflation was slowing brightened the gloomy picture. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
It was a gloomy morning, so the house was dark without additional lumination. Weapons of massdistraction › When You’re In The Dark And You Want To See
Although dark and dusky, all this grey does not make the house gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
When composed sufficiently to distinguish and recognize individual objects, he looked upon the gloomy visage and threatening eye of his brother, and shrunk back with a terror almost epileptical. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
imbibe," settled once again to listen in gloomy silence. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
As they advanced, the corridor went gloomy, and more gloomy, until it was coalsack dark. Operation Luna
On the trading front, the picture remains gloomy. Times, Sunday Times
A good choice for the "gloomy days" of winter, readers will no doubt think of the tunnels they're coursing through when they consider the "o'er darkened ways made for our searching": John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads
The office was gloomy and dark and the hours long. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
The committee's view was in fact far from gloomy.

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