Sentence examples for a sombre time from inspiring English sources

The presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said that it was a "sombre time".

The presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj has said that it is a "sombre time".

"It was a sombre time because the country was in the middle of a war," she says, yet an abiding memory was of the classical Persian music her grandparents loved.

Fiyaz Mughal, the founder of Tell Mama and Faith Matters, said: "It's a sombre time for British Muslims with a sharp rise in Islamophobic hate incidents, impacts on the mobility of Muslim women in our country through Islamophobia, and recent terrorism in the heart of Islam's second most sacred site that has further led to fears and insecurities.

The Sunday Times newspaper took a sombre tone, with the headline "It's time to let him go", quoting a longtime friend of Mandela's, Andrew Mlangeni.

It may not be to everyone's taste but, in these sombre times, I found the show offered a restorative tonic.

It is a sombre moment, a time to reflect on my grandfather's life in South Korea and abroad, and the parallels with my own journey between different cultures: my Korean parentage, a life in New York and now London.

Perhaps in keeping with its troubled inception, the book takes a sombre tone.