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
Even if other voices joined the bass in some or all of the verses, a low adult male voice certainly sang throughout, as if to underscore the psalm's sombre mood.
Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties.
As the death toll grew, there were poignant scenes at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire as five coffins draped with the union flag arrived at RAF Lyneham and were met by sombre crowds on the town's streets.
Men dress as charros, or Mexican cowboys, and wear wide-brimmed sombreros along with tailored jackets and pants lined with silver or shining metal buttons.
But you have a sombre, morose side which can mean you going for darker colours and shades.
Arthur had made a fantastic "rockery" of skulls and shanks and ribs, and filled it in with earth, enough to furnish growth for trailing nasturtiums, whose bright red and yellow blossoms were strangely at variance with their sombre setting. The Second Chance
That same rim of dust appears bright in Spitzer's infrared image, which also reveals that Sombrero 's central bulge of stars.
Despite this beautiful and dreamy Titian, the tone continued to be rather sombre.
In sombre tones of shadow and mulberry, four couples perform duets that flicker between struggle and dependency. Times, Sunday Times
A funeral is a sombre occasion.
While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
In the sombre main chamber where most of his days were spent, there was no decoration, no contrasting texture.
The daily press conferences became increasingly sombre as the days went past.
The couple were reportedly sombre as they laid flowers at the island tomb on the 14,000-acre Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire.
When she painted in Belgium the colours were sombre with a lot of browns and ochres.
We're going to have people with six-guns and so forth, sombreros, wandering through there as the local guides through ‘Ghost Town.’
But indeed it could hardly be called a festivity, — it was so quiet and sombre. Castle Richmond
It was an eerie and sombre scene, a grey warship beneath a leaden sky with the occasional drop of rain falling.
It was dusk and that just defined the dark, sombre, funereal feeling of the time. Times, Sunday Times
He tried to be all serious and sombre - but it was all a little too practised. The Sun
A slow, sombre chorale underpins intricate polyphonies woven by the oboe and other woodwinds. Times, Sunday Times
Israeli chief rabbi condemns mosque attack children, one way or another, manage to acquire insight into sombre holidays such as Yom Kippur, Jewish parents WN.com - Articles related to Pamela Cox: Latin America enters decade with more clout
The farmer even has a halo formed by his tipped back sombrero, and the holiness of this revolutionary embrace is reinforced by its association with the embrace of Joachim and Anna in Giotto’s Arena Chapel in Padua. Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
If a painter wishes to paint a sombre portrait, he first covers the canvas entirely with a dull brown colour.
The version of ‘Sombrero Sam’, however, really allows Emerson's funky keyboard chops to come to the fore.
Also, the rails carried black cords with black tassels hanging down, giving a sombre effect to the wooden coffin clamped to the trolley platform.
Coca-Cola has downscaled its media coverage in Ireland, ‘so as not to interrupt the sombre content of the news’.
The theme of the day is Spanish holiday, they are dressed almost to a man in sombreros, with either beach balls, lilos or water rings.
The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants. Times, Sunday Times
But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river.
These are sombre thoughts for anyone interested in current political thought.
Also, the rails carried black cords with black tassels hanging down, giving a sombre effect to the wooden coffin clamped to the trolley platform.
So I hopped out, went out on the veranda and said hello and smiled at everybody, and they were all very sombre and gloomy.
The sombre occasion was further enhanced by the dulcet tones of Winnie Joyce.
In the 1980s her paintings generally became calmer in mood and more sombre in colour.
And as Evelyn Van Wyck fled through the sombre forest aisles before the too arduous advances of her slant-browed, skin-clad wooer, the door of the cabin opened, without the courtesy of a knock, and a skin-clad woman, savage and primitive, came in. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
It sets the sombre note that he maintains throughout. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath the richly covered buildings lie the sombre underground burial vaults.
He used to return from them with a resentful, sombre look, as if his reflections had not been pleasant company for him. Emily Fox-Seton
The continued trend away from big-ticket items provided a more sombre note. Times, Sunday Times
A funeral is a sombre occasion.
Most people come back from Spain with a donkey and a sombrero and clinking carrier bags.
Then the valley of the Elbe is a mass of white and pale green set against a background of yellow sandstone rocks and the sombre greens and purples of pine forests. From a Terrace in Prague
They smiled up at Smokes and Eleanor and one of them took off his sombrero. DESPERADOES
Watch for an impressive, sombre solo done with untied pointe shoes.
On the subway, commuters wore sombre expressions they would wear on any such Friday.
Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn.
The men in sombreros were miked and amped and they were shaking maracas and playing guitar.
The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur.
Little Malcolm won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1974 Cooper's next movie, the sombre and chastening Overlord, won another Silver Bear in 1975, and the post-ceremonial bacchanals were memorable indeed. Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
Amid the hilarious exhilaration of her manifold dislikes, it strikes a sombre note.
Although there is no narrative, the work clearly interprets the music with some sections being quite sombre while others are quite amusing.
Back at the car, we feel in sombre mood as we head east for the city. Times, Sunday Times
When she painted in Belgium the colours were sombre with a lot of browns and ochres.
David's nasal voice managed to sound both sombre and aroused.
These things with tales of sombre clouds and shining skies and whisperings of strange creatures dancing timidly in pavonine twilights, he traced upon the ivory keys of his instrument and the world was richer for a poet. Chopin : the Man and His Music
The morning sunshine gave way to a sombre shroud of grey clouds, which threatened rain but failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the boisterous crowd.
But the sombre peace is shattered when a bomb blast is heard shuddering in the distance and the spooks must answer the call of duty.
Big colours include pink, lime green, bright blues and more sombre chocolate browns and off whites.
The sombre build-up belied the way the game unfolded. The Sun
The pair were in sombre mood.
Damn! If Bush can get a hummer from a guy wearing a freakin’ sombrero, at least he’s got SOMETHING going for him. Think Progress » Candidate Bush Would ‘Sing The Star-Spangled Banner in Spanish’ At Hispanic Festivals
Despite my sombre and bitter tone, much can be done to improve the relationship between the university and its students.
He stomps in without stopping to divest himself of his sombrero, spurs or pistols.
`Brought yer a cuppa tea an "a curran ' bun," he said sombrely. STAGE FRIGHT
There was a mood of sombre but affectionate reflection at Easter Sunday services as churchgoers mourned Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother who had died the previous day.
The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants. Times, Sunday Times
It is a familiar sombreness, unthreatening but omniscient, like the dour old man in the corner, terrifying the children with his dark warnings, but thrilling to approach, to reach towards with a tentative hand.
The sombre mood came despite a decent day for big stocks. Times, Sunday Times
This survey of the EU's institutions, like the new institutionalist literature itself, might seem to paint a generally sombre, downbeat, pessimistic picture of modern political life.
Mutterings rippled around the room about how all refugees should be taken in, but the squadron leader shook his head sombrely.
The mood is sombre but this is possibly the most life-affirming, accomplished and affecting of his albums. The Sun
Indeed, the whole production is dark in terms of both light levels and the sombre browns and greys of the costuming and set.
The fact is, the "sombre" message (as it is being officially endorsed) of a jewel encrusted and glorified dynastic ruler is a far cry from the values of humility and humanity that Jesus Christ represents for those of the Abrahamic faiths. Shirin Sadeghi: Ahmadinejad's Alternative to the Queen's Christmas Message
The continued trend away from big-ticket items provided a more sombre note. Times, Sunday Times
An elegant Siddha on a cave ceiling is done in sombre shades of blue, ranging from off-white to ultramarine, an unusual colour scheme.
The mood was sombre as the Commons sat down on Wednesday to debate the crisis.
Named the Sombrero Galaxy for its hat-like resemblance, M104 features a prominent dust lane and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters.
Men know him as a lonely figure riding of a morning through Rock Creek Park, wearing an immense sombrero, kid gloves, buff waistcoat and an old riding coat.
Raynal, the inhabitants still preserved a kind of rigorism that savours of the sombre days in which the Puritan colonies had their rise. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
His dilemma provides a sombre and topical close to this irresistibly engaging book. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, it is part of the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy , one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies .
On the subway, commuters wore sombre expressions they would wear on any such Friday.
But Stewy seemed to take the comment quite seriously, nodding in sombre sympathy as he tuned up his twelve string.
Inside, what was a somewhat dark and sombre building has been opened up to the light, its stone restored to its original honey colour, its doors widened, its access hugely improved.
Being a sedate and sombre brunette could get boring eventually.
His coat was a sombre brown.
A naughty pall of mist has descended on the countryside, but it is far from sombre.
The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. Les Miserables
This sombre composition captures not just a likeness and a character but a profoundly evocative atmosphere and mood. Times, Sunday Times
This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat.
He cut a dashing figure on horseback with his sombrero, bandolier and moustache. Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico
The Sombrero galaxy is located some 28 million light - years away .
The sombre dark altarpieces of Piazzetta are the last great exemplars of Counter-Reformation religious art, while Tiepolo painted luminous and high-keyed frescoes of religious and mythological subjects.
Fifty million-year-old light from the Sombrero Galaxy can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of Virgo.
Only now has its cold and sombre mood begun to touch me. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
The colours lend a brightness to the grey and sombre winter's afternoon.
The mood is sombre but this is possibly the most life-affirming, accomplished and affecting of his albums. The Sun
:: a loud tremble comes from the north as the ground rumbles and shakes, over the horizon a stegosaurus with dub riding on its back appear; dub tips his sombrero:: howdy, fags. PRO LIFERS PROTEST ‘HORTON HEARS A WHO’
Upon the restart more than an hour later, the sombre and saturated conditions witnessed some excellent golf from the higher handicappers with the veteran Ed Trayling heading division two with level par 36 points.
Blue mountain crests soar above dark realms of virgin forest, where the sombre conifers exude the precious _damar_, which glues itself to the red trunks in shining lumps often of twenty pounds 'weight, or sinks deeply into the soft soil, from whence the solidified gum needs excavation. Through the Malay Archipelago
Sad, sombre and hilarious, this is not to be missed. Times, Sunday Times
The year had ended on a sombre note.
The mood is subdued, sombre and on the right side of maudlin. Times, Sunday Times
Portraying Down Mexico Way, this band boasted a Spanish influence with its fancy sailors wearing colourful sombreros and a section of female revellers in flamenco-styled costumes.
Taco Bell Grande is similarly popular and prestigious; the waiters wear enormous joke-like sombreros that would probably lead to lawsuits from the National Council of La Raza if worn in stateside Taco Bells. Postcards From Tomorrow Square
Each piece casts a specific mood, sombre, flighty or relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
His early paintings are vibrant with greens and golds, then moving into reds, and then gradually becoming darker and more sombre as the years advance. Times, Sunday Times
Farage is in an unusually sombre mood. Times, Sunday Times
The sombre mood came despite a decent day for big stocks. Times, Sunday Times
The rhymes and rhythms lure you onwards - but you often land up in a sombre place. Times, Sunday Times
But there was a sombre shadow of familiarity to it and after subjective eons of frustration, intuition struck her.
There were Nicaraguan flags and cardboard cut-outs of Sandino's sombrero in the windows. DESPERADOES
Their mood was sombre, too. Times, Sunday Times
Each piece casts a specific mood, sombre, flighty or relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
‘Eskimo Lament’ comes first, drenched in sombre piano and plucked guitar, before the arrival of gorgeous harmonies and trumpet flourishes.
Simultaneously stockbrokers' traditional sombre suits and conservative shirts gave way to flashy turnback cuffs.
Brother Cadfael was standing in the middle of his walled herb-garden, looking pensively about him at the autumnal visage of his pleasance, where all things grew gaunt, wiry and sombre. A River So Long
He recalled the sombre anguish he had surprised in the young girl's eyes, then her comforted glance when her mother smiled at once upon Gorka and Maitland. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Despite the sombre contents of the tapes, the go-between who helped record the interviews said recently that people would be surprised at what a cheerful lady she ultimately was.
Back at the car, we feel in sombre mood as we head east for the city. Times, Sunday Times
He likes sombre, muted colours — she likes bright colours.
It is in the sombre years of the fourteenth century that the new era of poetry begins, and Guillaume de Machault is the name usually associated with the first effusion of that deplorable cataract of ballades and rondeaux. Introduction
As we reached the windmill, as though in sombre greeting, the floating mists on the near horizon seemed to part, and there rose from them a dark, jagged tower, one side of it torn away. England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
The pedestrians were sombrely garbed, and went about in "rubbers" -- the most depressing of all articles worn by man. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Leaders wear sombreros and opt for education.
I don’t have the violin soloist going – YET – but in the meantime I have some lovely, sombre chamber music rolling on 8-track in the background. Zachary | Her Bad Mother
In grave tones and with a sombre face, the receptionist said ‘You've been upgraded to a suite.’
The implacable Destiny which consigns the brothers to mutual enmity and mutual destruction, for the guilt of a past generation, involving a Mother and a Sister in their ruin, spreads a sombre hue over all the poem; we are not unmoved by the characters of the hostile Brothers, and we pity the hapless and amiable Beatrice, the victim of their feud. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
He tried to be all serious and sombre - but it was all a little too practised. The Sun
The sombre build-up belied the way the game unfolded. The Sun
The rhymes and rhythms lure you onwards - but you often land up in a sombre place. Times, Sunday Times
Un million de cuisines sombres, un millier de greniers mornes Bread and Roses
He had just heard the huntmaster mark the occasion with a sombre valediction, but pledge to continue the tradition of hunting.
The mood was sombre as the Commons sat down on Wednesday to debate the crisis.
This sombre celebration was introduced after the First World War, to mark and honour the day on which the guns fell silent on the Western Front and the slaughter stopped in 1918.
The house in which Bardo lived was situated on the side of the street nearest the hill, and was one of those large sombre masses of stone building pierced by comparatively small windows, and surmounted by what may be called a roofed terrace or loggia, of which there are many examples still to be seen in the venerable city. Romola
His dilemma provides a sombre and topical close to this irresistibly engaging book. Times, Sunday Times
I wear a sombrero, silk neckerchief, fringed buckskin shirt, sealskin chaparajos or riding-trousers; alligator-hide boots; and with my pearl-hilted revolver and beautifully finished Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Striped pants and jackets come in sombre or bold colours, and vertical striped sports shirts in uneven or even patterns.
With a poncho, the correct accoutrements are a sombrero and some tequila; with matching hats and scarves, facial hair and a job at Santa's grotto is recommended.
So good is Gasol, so good are the Lakers, he gets a little love when the MVP voting rolls around. Not enough to actually win (or even threaten), but a nice little feather in his sombrero nonetheless.
The company argued that the music was ‘suitable and had a sombre, funereal tone’.
It seemed as if absolute fire came out of his long dark sombre eyes. Wives and Daughters
The funeral was a sombre occasion.
The men in sombreros were miked and amped and they were shaking maracas and playing guitar.
The door was opened at once, and she was taken through the quaint square hall into the master's own sitting-room, a richly sombre place of oak boiserie and old crimson silk. The Price of Things
The mood in Parliament remained sombre.
There were no ranters or rabble-rousers, just an invited audience of academics, writers, politicians and sombre party members.
Tomorrow, three floors above the street, the mood will be sombre. Times, Sunday Times
The instrument's melancholy tones complement the often sombre frontier folk songs.
So good is Gasol, so good are the Lakers, he gets a little love when the MVP voting rolls around. Not enough to actually win (or even threaten), but a nice little feather in his sombrero nonetheless.
Evidently, fur is the hot thing for men to be wearing - fur coats, fur vests, fur sombreros.
The pair were in sombre mood.
In the corner of the large and sombre library, with no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that internal sorcery by which past or imaginary events are presented in action, as it were, to the eye of the muser. Waverley
After come the lazadores, dressed in buckskin suits, elaborately trimmed with silver ornaments and broad, expensive sombreros. Six Months in Mexico
The colouring is sombre: a palette of deep browns and dark reds, highlighted here and there with touches of white for linen and lace cuffs. The Times Literary Supplement
He made child's play of its tricky fingerwork and zipped through prestissimi at double-speed, braking precipitately into a sombre adagio.
The reporters sound stressed, the anchors sombre but unfazed.
On a more sombre note, my heart goes out to everyone affected by the plane crash in Yogyakarta. Once more unto the breach, dear friends ...
Paradoxically, this show is both mind-numbingly sombre and utterly superficial.
As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of today, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing. Les Miserables
They were white men, like us, but they were hard-faced, stern-faced, sombre, and they seemed angry with all our company. Chapter 12
It was Lester's rover, "Pecos," and it was a full-size sombrero. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Just then, a group of men wearing sombreros and playing guitar came to our floor.
Image of the famous early-type spiral galaxy Messier 104, widely known as the "Sombrero" (the Mexican hat) because of its particular shape.
It was a bravura performance totally out of keeping with his usual sober, sombre approach to both football and life. The Sun
I see a panoply of rare delights; a pyramid of pretty serving girls, resplendent in starched white and sombre black; a thousand dinner invitations to the best of homes; salons of the demi monde; balls of the influential; country house parties; menus from the best restaurants; witty conversation; unrequited love. Genre tattoo « Write Anything
Some revelers wore straw sombreros and stick-on mustaches, poking fun at a national stereotype, while the government sought to promote a more serious side with an open-air philharmonic orchestra.
The colours lend a brightness to the grey and sombre winter's afternoon.
The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants. Times, Sunday Times
The decor is predominately grey but the look is far from sombre. Times, Sunday Times
You must make your escape quietly when the moon has set, and fly like a poor petrel from the foot of some sombre reef. Indiana
Other writers were equally to popularize the notion of a fundamental watershed, but in tones that encouraged a more sombre mood.
So, uh, is the uniform jet black and sombre or colourful and gay?
The paintings seem at first to be sombre in tone, coloured mostly by umbers and sepia-like hues.
Sad, sombre and hilarious, this is not to be missed. Times, Sunday Times
But the counterpart to this enthusiasm was a sombre and deeply serious view of such a life's task.
It sets the sombre note that he maintains throughout. Times, Sunday Times
In youth he also read with deep admiration Sallust's sombre histories of the Roman Republic and the comedies of Terence.
The Chandra X-ray image (in blue) shows hot gas in the galaxy and point sources that are a mixture of objects within the Sombrero as well as quasars in the background.
When the match was restarted the remaining four minutes were played in a sombre atmosphere.
Only now has its cold and sombre mood begun to touch me. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
`Only if and where necessary," Didenko heard Lidichev's sombre voice intone. THE LAST RAVEN
Neutral colours can look too bland and dark colours too sombre.
On Saturday night the mood in the camp was sombre. We were all seriously down.
It was a serious and sombre speech, with few references to the theme of binding the nation that is common in Lincoln. Times, Sunday Times
It was a cold morning as workers gathered for the meeting, a sea of black and grey and dark blue jackets, and the mood was as sombre as the colour of the crowd.
For his picture does remain sombre, since for him the nature of man is wounded, if not corrupted. François Mauriac - Banquet Speech
The heavier pieces of old furniture had gay "tidies" or "throws" upon them to relieve the sombreness of the dark wood. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City

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