Has he not a sombre look?
Accordingly, the crowd was sombre and grave.
She looked up staring at the sombre December sky.
A successful club celebrates its 50th birthday in sombre mood.
SECOND SOLDIER: Yes he has a sombre look.
The Bank of England has delivered a sombre warning.
Instead, the speech was a sombre affair, and the popular reaction muted.
It was noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre.
They have rescued the peace process, but the mood is sombre.
The wind blows. That sombre ship has a path which it is forced to pursue.
She describes her show's final section as "melancholy" : the rooms here are, indeed, touching, sombre and dark.
It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more sombre passages of a War Requiem.
She saw it through a mist of fancy--a pale, sombre half-light, which was the essence of poetic feeling.
The mood at the National Postal Forum, the industry's annual gathering, which took place this week in Tennessee, was sombre.
From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face.
The red sparks in the water vanished together with the stains of blood in the black mantle draping the sombre head of the Placid Gulf;
Is the under side of civilization any less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more sombre?
This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Thenardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further.
As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their player what passed for play with those sombre little urchins -- and spoke gravely one to another
Impossible to class it in that ancient family of sombre,mysterious churches, low and crushed as it were by the round arch, almost Egyptian, with the exception of the ceiling;
Later in the show a sombre-looking Halperin apologised, after the show's presenters admitted they had goaded him into saying it but did not think he would go through with it and also apologised.
It was arranged in collaboration with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which loaned many works including the strong but sombre "Study for a Portrait of a Seated man" (see slideshow below).
They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.
She made the sombre crowd cheerful by her erratic and glistening ray, even as a bird of bright plumage illuminates a whole tree of dusky foliage by darting to and fro, half seen and half concealed amid the twilight of the clustering leaves.
