Sentence examples for grew somber from inspiring English sources

When the work was done, Two Bears grew somber, and sat on a plastic container.

But they grew somber when discussing their separation from their families.

At the thought of it, Fatima's face, full of only energy before, grew somber and then cross.

To his credit, Roddick grew somber yesterday when somebody asked if he thought about Benhabiles, who lives in France.

But both grew somber as Yu recalled his childhood, no less infected by the grotesque for being relatively untouched by the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

Some residents first seemed hopeful that the whale might somehow make its way back out to sea, but as fog rolled in and the rain mixed with snow, the mood grew somber.

But by the time you get to "The Fellowship of the Ring," the first volume of "The Lord of the Rings," Tolkien's tone has grown somber, even leaden.

And "Vanities" grows somber in the climactic scene, which finds them all assembled (somewhat bizarrely) on a Manhattan terrace several years after graduation, for a reunion that turns predictably into both a consciousness raising session and a catfight.

The crowd, still feeling bruised over the drubbing Democrats took in the midterms, seemed eager to see him, but grew more somber as the president shifted into a discussion of his day with the Republican governor, and recounted the story of Miami Central.

But even as the police in Karachi, Pakistan, began searching the dozens of cemeteries in that port city and as the mood at The Journal's New York offices grew increasingly somber, no officials were immediately willing to dismiss the demand for a ransom.

But the mood will never grow too somber.