Sentence examples for become somber from inspiring English sources

A man who identified himself as working in the body shop of Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, said the mood had become "somber and quiet" there.

They become somber as a black victim of police torture tells how he was dangled from a window of the room where Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid leader, was fatally beaten.

Soon there were hymns, and the pope became somber.

He widened his eyes in self-ridicule, then, the next moment, his expression became somber.

Mr. Costello becomes somber himself when he discusses the current state of the music industry, and how he's gotten off "the machine" of recording an album every year or two followed by tours.

But then my parents became somber.

Craig became somber for a moment.

After a few questions for Hadley, he became somber and very focused.

Just as I leaned in to kiss my 9-year old goodnight, she became somber.

As he skulked off to the back of the room, the mood on set became somber.

As the dismal numbers filtered in, which astonishingly showed George W. Bush in the lead, the mood in the hall became somber.