How To Use Glum In A Sentence

His demeanor was that of a person who is far from pleased with the course of events, and the word glum best describes his expression. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
It took her two false starts - with analysts Bruni-Sarkozy described as "glum" - before she hit on the right one. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
BTW … the online article was written long ago and the LJW staff will, I am sure, update it when they have puddleglum (Anonymous) says … kansas redlegs: yeah I know exactly what you mean. LJWorld.com stories: News
British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.

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The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Objective To evaluate the effects of meglumine diatrizoate mucilage ( MDC ) used as contrast medium in bronchography.
Imagine his glum answer when asked if he'd ever made an ace: ‘Yeah, but nobody was there to see it.’
Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
It seemed all the guests wanted to sit and look glum. The Sun
The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The previous night he looked glum after a meal out. The Sun
It was a slightly glum day, the vivid blue of the sky partially hidden by overcast, and the silky gray rainbirds taking flight in the chill air.
‘Now all we have to do is find out way back out to the motorway again,’ Graham said, just a little glumly.
A glum opening gala, transport and ticket errors mean thousands queue for hours. Times, Sunday Times
His trial, which began only a week after the raid, fulfilled Messervy's glummest fears. THE NUMBERS
The U.S. economy continues to flash mixed signals, as consumer sentiment turned glummer in June, but a gauge of the economy's short-term trajectory showed the recovery continuing. Consumer Mood Darkens, but Indicators Brighten
We are so German that, going back, we think we must look the part - glum and serious and sincere.
The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Members of the Glumiflorae are anemophilous, or ‘wind-loving.’
Meglumine antimoniate = Methy glucamine = Glucantime Chapter 17
This prolonged rachilla sometimes bears a minute glume, which is of course rudimentary. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The first and the second glumes are empty, subequal, narrowly linear with a strong midrib which is produced into a long capillary awn. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _third_ and _fourth glumes_ are half-amplexicaul, empty, epaleate, flabelliform, 4-lobed, 7-nerved, shortly awned at the back, villous; the side lobes are acuminate or aristate and the central lobes are shortly awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Danny is pushing his food around the plate with his cutlery glumly.
Despite the win, he looked glum. Times, Sunday Times
Hairs on the margins and keels of glume III pointed and not clavate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Leicester were glum and Bath were almost gleeful. Times, Sunday Times
She was very glum and was obviously missing her children.
The _fourth glume_ is broadly ovate, or suborbicular, very concave, coriaceous, transversely rugulose, yellowish brown. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
So the youngest member glumly goes off alone to play a videogame. In Scary Darkness, Seeing the Light
Once inside, I found myself disappointed to find a bland platter of nothing more than carrots& celery with ranch dressing [semi-fresh, at that; it was picked up from a convenience store around the corner, I gleaned from overheard conversation later] and a sole, glum keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon ™ brewski. Ennui
Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
To the casual visitor to France, a country of high-speed trains, well-stocked municipal flower beds and sit-down lunches, such French glumness is baffling.
She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected. The Sun
He is without doubt one of the glummest men in pop. The Sun
Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
_second glume_ is as long as the first, oblong, coriaceous, keeled, with hyaline and ciliolate margins, 1-nerved (sometimes 3-nerved, marginal faint), and with minute prickles on the keel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
` ` But what's the use o 'looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes? The Antiquary
More than a flurry, then, but not the avalanche the glums have been predicting. Times, Sunday Times
The third glume is ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, longer or shorter than the second, 1-nerved, paleate; palea is as long as the glume and of the same texture of the glume dorsally narrowly inflexed along the middle line and splitting into two halves. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Cage seems unusually glum about his task, though Ron Perlman does get to headbutt Satan, and there's a tatty rope bridge across a chasm to give this dun-coloured trudge at least one hokily diverting set piece. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected. The Sun
For poorer Americans, the prospects are even glummer, augmented by ever-grimmer statistics on obesity, childhood diabetes and much else. Notable & Quotable
The _fourth glume_ is chartaceous, shining, smooth ovate-oblong, apex cuspidate, with a few hairs on the edges at the apex, faintly 5-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
It recalled so vividly Clare's early experiences of houselessness, that beasts and caravans, his mother and Glum Gunn, grew hazy and distant, and the old time drew so near that he seemed to have waked into it out of a long dream. A Rough Shaking
THE COLLAPSING DOLLAR: The dollar fell to a new low against the euro on Friday, propelled by Bernanke's glum economic forecast and by signals from the Chinese government that it would "readjust" some of its U.S. PERFECT STORM = HOUSING CRASH, IRAQ DRAIN & COLLAPSING DOLLAR
A glum opening gala, transport and ticket errors mean thousands queue for hours. Times, Sunday Times
The _sessile spikelet_ consists of four glumes and contains a complete flower and the callus is short and bearded with long hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Anyway, as the tumbril bearing Grant came into view, and we got shots of toothless crones in the crowd getting on with their knitting – or their modern equivalent, West Ham fans looking glum – the Hammers' latest signing, Wayne Bridge, was demonstrating that even a magic Chris Waddle cheque book might not provide an automatic solution to the club's troubles. Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
The _first glume_ is concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _first two glumes_ are membranous, ovate-oblong, glabrous, acuminate and shortly awned, the _first glume_ is shorter than the second, 1 - to 3-nerved, the _second glume_ is longer than the first, A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _fourth glume_ is broadly ovate, or suborbicular, very concave, coriaceous, transversely rugulose, yellowish brown. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
No glum faces, no fake sincerity or hypocritical concern for those he left behind; just an excuse to celebrate the crazy fool.
But might one chap feel rather glum? The Sun
The _third glume_ is oblong lanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved, a little shorter than the second glume, paleate and with stamens; _palea_ is short. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
She was very glum and was obviously missing her children.
Spikes solitary; spikelets 1-flowered; first glume of the sessile spikelet pectinate 21. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
“I had the honour,” wrote Gulliver solemnly of Lilliput, “to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for, as all the world knows, he is only a Clumglum, a title inferior by one degree….” Alexander Hamilton, American
He had to give up rugby, and got rather glum as a result. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, however, things are a bit glummer than they were – I had misremembered and thought I had to do only 12 repeats and then find a good stopping-place in the 13th. Archive 2009-02-01
The couple had looked glum as they walked on the beach. The Sun
Nevertheless, I find myself at this weird juncture, a cultural snag wrapped in a conundrum shaped like a question mark dressed in scratchy raw Japanese selvedge and smoking American Spirits, glumly, in a grungy hoody, outside the bike shop, twitching just a little. Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire
The first and the second glumes are subequal and empty, and the first glume is winged along the inflated margins. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Even Escovedo's own record company casually tosses off buzzwords like loss, longing and regret in his bio, but he says it is wrong to typecast him as a rather glum fellow.
Everyone looks very glum all the time, for no good reason, and everyone is very elongated.
Of course, both films (Miami Vice and Spartan) are labelled as 'glum' by their detractors. Filmstalker Review: Miami Vice
The camera rarely moves; the characters are similarly immobile, frozen in a kind of glum stasis. Times, Sunday Times
After dinner, Kate lapsed into a glum silence .
The _fourth glume_ is hyaline, as long as the third glume, 2-fid at the tip, awnless with a very minute arista in the cleft or not, paleate with two stamens; _palea_ narrow and hyaline. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence.
Whether these opposing price trends leave you more giddy than glum depends largely on demographics.
_Glyceria fluitans_, the spikelet of which, as observed by Wigand, [291] consisted below of the ordinary unchanged glumes, but the remaining paleæ as well as the lodicles and stamens were represented by ligulate leaves. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Well, we got hru yesterday pretty well, we were all three pretty glum. My Domestic Church
Tooley Street with the old folks, who really are so uncommon glumpy, that it's quite refreshing to get away from them. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
I loosened my grip on the rail enough to begin a glumble down the stairs (glumble meaning a glide and a stumble all in one).
He had to give up rugby, and got rather glum as a result. Times, Sunday Times
The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
In one short-season variety, some farmers are selecting for tough outer glumes (the papery coat or bract around the seed) and long awns (the hair-like bristle growing out from the glume) which help protect the grains from birds, a major pest of early rice. 14. Saving seeds for planting
First glume semilunate, about 1/4 of the third glume. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honor to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows he is only a Glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a Marquis is to a Duke in England, although I allow he preceded me in right of his post. Gulliver's Travels
The _first glume_ is narrow, linear, membranous, grooved, finely bicuspidate at the apex, with incurved margins and two nerves ending in tubercles below. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
We English are often too modest about our own achievements, so take a bow Mike Ashley, one of the few multimillionaire sporting figures who actually looks glummer than Tiger Woods. New generation of Premier League club owners are a breed apart | Harry Pearson
He made a concerted effort to smile his way out of his understandably glum expression while I tried to say what I wanted to say in the right kind of way.
Two hours later Shelley glumly rescued her over-baked potato from the oven, grated some Red Leicester over it and ate at the kitchen table.
The _third glume_ is similar to the second, paleate; _palea_ is lanceolate and short. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Its set is uninspired, its atmosphere static and its stars among the glummest on television. Times, Sunday Times
Spikes panicled, filiform, spikelets very minute one-or more-flowered, glumes awnless. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, smooth at the back with a truncate base and a transverse ridge at the base inside, many-nerved, with very narrow inflexed margins and very narrow wings at the top, the apex is obtuse or emarginate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The third glume is hyaline, deeply cleft into two lobes with an awn in the cleft, and 3-nerved, paleate; palea is linear-lanceolate enclosing either stamens and ovary or ovary alone. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The remaining glumes _fourth_ to _seventh_ are borne by the rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3 - to 5-nerved, scaberulous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The first and the second glumes are subequal, membranous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
If this represents global culture, it's all pretty glum. Times, Sunday Times
The _third glume_ is broadly oblong, hyaline, nerveless or rarely with two obscure veins ciliolate at the margins and acute or acuminate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The term "free threshing" is also applied to the involute glumes of some West African guinea sorghums. 10. Sorghum: Specialty Types
The _first glume_ in the awnless spikelets is coriaceous, oblong, cuneate, very sparsely hairy or glabrous, shorter than the second glume, 7-nerved, 5-toothed at the apex, two teeth being broader and shorter and three sharper and longer. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Male spikelets are geminate, one sessile and one pedicelled, 2-flowered or imperfect, and with four glumes, which are subequal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
It's weird work done by pale, unhappy people -- of whom Will is the glummest. Code Dread: AMC's 'Rubicon' crosses into delectably dangerous territory
She left the court looking glum and without saying anything. The Sun
An it worrets me as Mr. Tomll sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin his brow, an a-lookin at the fire of a night. IV. Brother and Sister. Book VI—The Great Temptation
Another day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grassplot to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
The _second glume_ is as long as the third, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 5-nerved sometimes with two partial nerves added one on each side of the central vein, pubescent between the veins and hispid on the veins. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Could Learn From Mrs. T The glummest face Wednesday night might have been, if only we could have seen it, that of Hillary Clinton. What Mrs. Palin
Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/16 inch subsessile or pedicelled, always appressed to the rachis solitary in the upper portions of the branches, and two to five on the branchlets in the lower portion, pale, green or rarely copper coloured, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, caducous or glumes one and two persistent. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The third and the fourth glumes embracing the fifth and the sixth are empty, flabelliform, 4-lobed, and dorsally shortly awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The fourth glume is as long as the third and the second, oblong or ovate, coriaceous, narrowed into a straight terminal awn, paleate and bisexual; palea is oblong, coriaceous and 2-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _second glume_ is the longest, linear-lanceolate, rigid, tip obtuse or emarginate, slightly convex with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
WSU reports characteristics as awned with white glumes, excellent winter hardiness, and stiff straw.
So he was dumb, silent and glum, as the small "chay" he drew, Sketches — Volume 04
Evening grain washing preparation of fermentation grain washing preparation of fermentation glume removal glume removal 1. Objectives of the Introduction of Animal-Powered Mills
Becky, the eldest, was staring glumly at her latest present.
I saw her reappear near her seat a few minutes later, looking sort of glum.
Eventually, Davey Johnson, the Mets manager, stopped pitching Sisk at Shea, an embarrassing decision that the ballplayer glumly accepted. The One Met Their Fans Most Loved to Hate
a purple dorsal awn, 3-nerved paleate; the two marginal nerves are densely bearded with long white or purple tinged hairs from near the base to almost the apex and the mid-nerve also similarly bearded with long hairs on both sides, and the base with a tuft of long hairs; the palea is as long as the glume, coriaceous obovately-cuneate, obtuse, minutely bifid, purple-tipped, with folded hyaline margins, 2-keeled; keels shortly ciliate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
They did look a bit glum. The Sun
Fraternity would become something to celebrate joyfully, and unity would no longer be glum uniformity.
The first two glumes are membranous, lanceolate, and subequal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
What's the point in going out for a coffee if you're going to sit there all glum and miserable?
The fourth glume is often awned or reduced to an awn. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The remaining glumes _fourth_ to _seventh_ are borne by the rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3 - to 5-nerved, scaberulous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Bread that is a day old is more digestible as it is less likely to form "glumpy" balls in the stomach cYp Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
It finally took a hard smack with Godzilla's tail to rouse him out of his glum state and knock us all over with a wind tornado of anger.
Harriet of course had to talk to a fellow – passenger in the train, because Lovat was his glummest. Kangaroo
The _first glume_ is very short less than 1/5 inch, broadly oblong, nerveless, hyaline, broadly truncate and erose at the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Not only does it confer the free-threshing character, but also it influences glume keeledness, rachis toughness, spike length, spike type, and culm height.
The third and the fourth glumes are chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, bicuspidate and awned below the tip; awns are capillary, straight; the callus is bearded and articulate at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I glumly consign a notebook packed full of rib-ticklers about bratwurst and square-headed men with no sense of humour to the bin.
The first and the second glumes are unequal, persistent or separately caducous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Diseases like Stagonospora glume blotch and Fusarium head scab, which occur on wheat heads late in the growing season, can severely affect the seed.
The second glume is linear-lanceolate, rigid, empty, persistent recurved when old, tip obtuse or emarginate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
It seemed all the guests wanted to sit and look glum. The Sun
The _second glume_ is chartaceous, immersed in the cavity of the joint, and filling the opening. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
_Flowering glumes_ are broadly ovate or suborbicular, mucronulate, punctulate, with the lateral nerves equidistant from the margins and the median nerve, and produced far up towards the median nerve; palea is broad, shorter than its glume, deciduous with it, and with winged and scabrid keels. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _fourth glume_ is stalked, shorter than the third glume, distinctly 3-toothed at the apex, scabrid at the back above the middle, paleate and male; the _palea_ is smaller than the glume and A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
She left the court looking glum and without saying anything. The Sun
Without that sop to shareholders, the response to its lacklustre interim results yesterday could have been even glummer. Times, Sunday Times
From a regional base in the lakeside town of Sevan -- a collection of glum Soviet buildings scattered over a high plateau, with a decrepit ferris wheel strangely creaking in the wind at its entrance -- young Belgian psychologist Dr. Luk Van Baelen leads me on a journey into the dark world of the uncared-for mind. 'Writing On The Edge' Excerpt: Paradise Lost For Armenian Refugees
The _pedicelled spikelets_ also have four glumes and the pedicels usually free, but also sometimes adnate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _first glume_ is lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, 2-nerved, flattened dorsally, coriaceous at the base and hyaline above it, and with smooth incurved margins. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Of these hairs (as I had always a mechanical genius) I likewise made a neat little purse about five feet long, with her Majesty's name deciphered in gold letters, which I gave to Glumdalclitch, by the Queen's consent. Gulliver's Travels
The only time I've seen them look more glum is when they attempted to gee up an unresponsive crowd while supporting Travis earlier this year.
John replied, "Don't look so glum, chum!"
In early 2005, when a group of former aides asked if there was anything he was unhappy about, Yeltsin replied glumly: “Yes, the state of the country.” The Return
The fourth glume is chartaceous or sub-chartaceous, usually 3-nerved and paleate; palea is equal to and similar to the fourth glume, 2-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
The _first glume_ is chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-toothed with the teeth ending in two short awns, densely ciliated at the apex on one side, conspicuously 6 - A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _fourth glume_ is elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, smooth or shining, though faintly striate, coriaceous with incurved margins; _palea_ is coriaceous, as long as the glume, elliptic, faintly striate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Not to confound this person with the sour-faced man who sat glumpy, upon the bench taking snuff, the night before, let us call him Morgridge Klaus. Seven Little People and their Friends
She jumped into a blow-by-blow description of how tacky and cheap and unfashionable Mrs. Glum's latest get-up was.
But scratch beneath the surface and you will find that it's still a bit glum on the other side of the Atlantic. Times, Sunday Times
The _first glume_ is suborbicular, about half the length of the third glume, usually 3-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Next time I get too cranky and glum, will someone please remind me of these words I wrote today?
The chairman of JJB Sports was in downbeat mood at the firm's AGM with a glum combination of reduced turnover, lower profit margins and higher operating costs.
Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
Phenotypic traits include barbed lemmas, small sterile lateral spikelets, short glume awns, narrow leaves, semismooth awns, and long rachilla hairs.
The _third_ and _fourth glumes_ are half-amplexicaul, empty, epaleate, flabelliform, 4-lobed, 7-nerved, shortly awned at the back, villous; the side lobes are acuminate or aristate and the central lobes are shortly awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
A recent survey of 89 fund managers by Morgan Stanley showed that only a quarter of buy-side investors believe that India will beat other emerging markets this year, the glummest outlook in two years. Nothing Inevitable About India's Rise
The third and the fourth glumes are chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, bicuspidate and awned below the tip; awns are capillary, straight; the callus is bearded and articulate at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Margins of the first glume of the sessile spikelet inflexed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
It differs from _G. nutans_ in being an annual and in having filiform leaves, bicuspidate third glume which is scabrid all over the back and a fourth glume distinctly tricuspidate at the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Borglum, Gutzom , 1867 - 1941, St. Marys, American artist and sculptor of Mount Rushmore heads San Francisco imposes sanctions on Arizona
The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the second glume, awned at the apex, paleate, with three stamens and an ovary; the _palea_ is as long as the glume, elliptic oblong, obtuse. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Very soon after the indictment of Mr. Libby, the tricoteuses glumly conceded that no conspiracy has been uncovered.
The _second glume_ is oblong-lanceolate, acute, margins thin and membranous, inflexed, ciliate above the middle, 3-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Spikelets many, dissimilar, in solitary, digitate or fascicled racemes or spikes; first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _spikelets_ are 1/8 to 1/6 inch concealed by long silvery hairs of the callus and the glumes, articulate at the base; callus hairs are about twice as long as the spikelet or longer. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Not that he seems particularly glum about the prospect. Times, Sunday Times
The _fourth glume_ is about half as long as the third glume, with a short, stout, smooth rachilla, ovate-lanceolate, terminated at the tip by two teeth and a short awn, scabrid above the middle at the back, paleate and male; _palea_ is shorter than the glume; the rachilla is produced beyond the fourth glume and terminates in a thickening. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Broken Bells Why the glum faces? Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the ever-glummer George Michael, Martin has always given the impression that being taken seriously as an artist would be nice, but not essential. Album reviews: George Michael, "Faith" and Ricky Martin, "Musica + Alma + Sexo"
Frankly it's left me a bit glum. Times, Sunday Times
As much as his glum face likes anything that is. The Sun
The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The _empty glumes_ are subequal or the first is a little shorter, ovate, acute, membranous, keeled, and sometimes the keels with glands; the A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
If this represents global culture, it's all pretty glum. Times, Sunday Times
But might one chap feel rather glum? The Sun
Spikes or spiciform spikes racemed, spikelets 2 - to 3-flowered, 4 - to 5-glumed, awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
But his downcast eyes examine the ground as glumly as a man who has just been told he has cancer. Times, Sunday Times
The day went by quickly, everybody's mood seemed to be glum and the gray and rainy weather outside didn't help.
After dinner, Kate lapsed into a glum silence .
Being annoyed too at her insistence that they walk outside on a rather chilly morning, he hunched his shoulders and looked glum. Somewhere East of Life
The third wise man brought myrrh, for glummer reasons. Times, Sunday Times
Brian strikes me as actually quite a glum and unforthcoming figure.
_Glum_ is hardly the word, my dear; it conveys the impression of unamiability. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
The appointed PD pled him not guilty at the postindictment arraignment; Tim watched the proceedings glumly from a wheelchair. THE KILL CLAUSE
If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded.
Long-glume types with high seed weight are especially promising for increasing seed size. 2. Finger Millet
Inflorescence panicled; glumes three with a thickening at the base of the spikelet 3. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Williams sat at her desk, staring glumly at her open notebook, rereading the filled pages.
Perhaps the case of a dead junior doctor will put a smile back on his glum face? The Sun
Nevertheless, she looked glum as she returned to her London hotel in a black maxi dress, black flatform shoes and a plain black baseball cap.
A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a gleaming suburb. Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor
She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick, pearly spectacles. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
She left him as glum as she found him, not wanting the mither of trying to snap him out of it all over again. PROSPECT HILL
The color has been leached from the film after the manner of Minority Report, and even during the whiz-bang special effects scenes, the actors mostly stand around with glum looks on their faces. Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
With just a drizzle of spectators, the stadium looked pretty glum. Times, Sunday Times

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