Sentence examples for somber announcement from inspiring English sources
That will be broken, again temporarily, with a somber announcement when the number reaches 3,000.
Mr. Chávez, appearing somber and contemplative, made the announcement in a televised address from the presidential palace.
Bush, the son and brother of US presidents, made the announcement in a somber speech before supporters in Columbia after earning just 8.3% of the vote with 67% reporting in the third primary contest of 2016.
The hushed ceremony, on a sunny, breezy day, was a somber coda to a triumphal week that began with Mr. Obama's announcement Sunday night that American commandos had killed Bin Laden in his fortified compound in Pakistan.
The detention of several Cuban dissidents in Havana just before the year's end -- and two weeks after the historical announcement of the restoration of diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba -- serves as a somber reminder of Raúl Castro's government's lack of tolerance of dissent and the challenges that await in the difficult transition ahead.
At the Pentagon, Mr. Rumsfeld spoke in uncharacteristically somber tones about his upcoming visit, which had been under discussion for several days before Mr. Bush's announcement this morning.
A somber Hillary Clinton blamed her presidential election loss on a variety of factors Saturday, including FBI Director James B. Comey's announcement last month that newfound emails possibly linked to her private server were being reviewed.
As the COP22 Film4Climate Global Video Competition begins, the mood is somber: it's the end of the first week of the Conference of Parties and just five days after the announcement of Trump's election win.
Somber clothes for somber times.
