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sombre

[ UK /sˈɒmbɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. grave or even gloomy in character
    solemn and mournful music
    a somber mood
    a suit of somber black
  2. lacking brightness or color; dull
    drab faded curtains
    children in somber brown clothes
    sober Puritan grey

How To Use sombre In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Her husband, on the other hand, wears sombre tones of deep purple and black.
  • Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more. World Of Lather
  • Things are more sombre and serious in the second half, giving way to a darker, more elegiac mood. Times, Sunday Times
  • Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
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