Sentence examples for a sombre note from inspiring English sources

The show began on a sombre note.

Her paper ends on a sombre note.

The first afternoon session at Wheaton began on a sombre note.

The Czechs (in NATO but not the EU) injected a sombre note by putting forward a poison-gas detection unit.

There was a sombre note as the late Whitney Houston was named as a global icon, the honour being introduced by her friend Alicia Keys.

On a sombre note, the Haiti earthquake of 2010 united Haitian writers living in Quebec in the effort to provide material help for their Caribbean homeland.

On a more sombre note, Will Drop was a Montreal window cleaner who died in a fall, and on the same day in October 1941, two inmates of the Florida state prison, Willburn and Frizzel, were sent to the electric chair.

On a more sombre note, Xanthi municipality dedicated a plaque on the wall of the tobacco warehouse where pro-German Bulgarian troops massed the Jewish community of some 550 souls on March 4, 1943, prior to shipping them with 3,500 correligionaries from Drama and nearby towns to Bulgaria, and then on to the Treblinka death camp.

Whether Mrs Qaddafi fits the profile the Croats want, I am not sure, but, if she is really a Bosnian Croat she has every right to a Croatian passport and hence visa free travel throughout Europe.On a more sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations writes about the "protracted death of democratic Albania".

On a more sombre note, Rose warned the shareholders that M&S could not afford a repeat of the "introspection, arrogance, and standing still, which damaged us so much between 1999 and 2004", adding: "I believe that M&S is a sounder business, with a stronger brand... My M&S journey is coming to an end, but I believe you are in good hands".

Can't believe it was a copper 2p....could have at least been a £1 coin!" Of Hart's intervention with the City fan, the defender tweeted: "Respect to Joe Hart for protecting that idiot who ran on!! Love the banter between fans but there is a point when it goes too far...calm it!" Sir Alex Ferguson, though, struck a more sombre note.