somber

How To Use somber In A Sentence

• In an effort to take some of the beguilement out of her young eyes, I make light of your dark and somber task.
• The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
• Mr Cole remained sombre, straight-faced and silent as the returning officer pronounced Ms Greene, a local school governor, the victor with a 2,000-plus majority.
• From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
• And there was a list of this delegation, of peasants in their white pajamas and their sombreros.
• It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women.
• Although bitterly funny at times, the picture also creates a somber mood that is very affecting.
• My demise was once plotted here, deep in this dark sombre forest. Times, Sunday Times
• The name of this friendly looking restaurant, is taken from the title of a sombre poem “Le bateau ivre”. Serment - French Word-A-Day
• No, in his somber dichromatic uniform, he seemed as plain as you or I. Atticus