Sentence examples for glum with from inspiring English sources

In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain.

Yet in public, in front of the cameras, he can often appear glum, with a hangdog demeanour that does little to inspire confidence.

The outlook for home prices remains glum, with a drop of 2.5 percent expected this year followed by meager growth for several years thereafter, according to a recent report from MacroMarkets LLC.

Although Sharp was considered a low risk to the public, the New South Wales police put out a bulletin asking for the public's help and included two photos of the suspect looking glum with a blanket over her shoulders. .

In his book about the United States' qualification for the World Cup, "Chasing the Game," Filip Bondy, a columnist with The Daily News, described Bradley as "wholly analytical, glum, flirting with dour," but also a dedicated family man and a "thorough professional" with whom others enjoyed working.

Today's baby boomers, according to the report, are generally a "glum" group, with 80percentt saying they feel dissatisfied with the way their lives are going.

But "Godzilla" is a long, glum slog with a murky colour scheme best described as "50 shades of grey".

The glum guy with the scythe didn't appear in these pages until the late nineteen-sixties.

The candidates, pictured before a television debate, are a glum bunch, with Saeed Jalili the apparent favourite of the hardliners and the most moderate being another former nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rohani.

Andersson occasionally spikes his glum vignettes with broader social comedy: a barber's revenge on a racist customer, a businessman falling victim to a pickpocket, a priceless sight gag involving a hobbling OAP and an animatronic dog.

"Wholly analytical, glum, flirting with dour," is writer Filip Bondy's description of Bradley in his recent book about the US's qualification for the World Cup, Chasing the Game, and Bradley's suspicion of the media is such that the Americans' training camp at Princeton was closed to the public and windows in the press box at the football stadium were papered over, lest anyone might be spying.