Sentence examples similar to holiday gloom from inspiring English sources

Dire augury of holiday sales gloom failed to manifest in December, as sales at U.S. retailers slipped a mere 0.1% in the month, according to a report from the Commerce Department.

Some ran electrical cords along the ceiling and hung light bulbs, adding an odd holiday look to the yellowish gloom inside.

Perhaps you know the sense of gloom: after a fantastic holiday in a fabulous destination, you board a plane home and within hours are back in the old routines.

The ceiling of the union hall was festooned for the holidays with red and green streamers, but a gloom hung over the room on Friday morning as a few hundred former employees of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation trudged in.

And despite a few holiday chills, goodness in the tales will triumph over gloom.

HOLIDAY cheer can give way to new year's gloom when over-indulgers realise that it may take months to shed the pounds put on as a result of festive gluttony.

Page A19 Business RETAILERS EXPECT HIGH SALES WHILE PORTS SUGGEST GLOOM Analysts have been raising their predictions for holiday spending ever since the back-to-school shopping season was stronger than most had expected.

Some have suggested a bank or market holiday could be the way to shake irrational markets from their gloom.

Tickets sales for this year's Edinburgh festival fringe have hit a new record, after a surge in the number of people spending holidays at home and looking for an escape from the gloom of the recession.

Despite the failures and finacial constraints that cast gloom over the e-commerce sector this summer, the outlook for the holiday shopping season may give some Internet retailers reason for cheer.

Therefore, I plan to leave my holiday lights up until March this year, and use them to ward off the winter gloom". I LOVE seeing lights through the winter.