Sentence examples for glum silence from inspiring English sources

Of the 44 lots, 31 crashed unsold in a room where dealers sat in glum silence.

In years past, I would have joined accountants and sanitary inspectors as a race who, announcing their job at parties, would be greeted with glum silence.

Among the thousands gathered in front of a huge television screen in central Paris, there was a howl of disbelief, then a glum silence.

That is why Matthew Rhys's Ben is far more the restless, insecure postadolescent than Mr. Hoffman's prototype, whose rebellion largely consisted of glum silences.

Ashley normally sits through the company's annual meeting in silence and with a glum face, leaving the talking to the other directors.

If they seem glum and you get an awkward silence, the now is the time to tell your joke.

Closer by, a glum-looking couple sat, and chewed, in silence.

Why so glum?