Sentence examples for somber month from inspiring English sources

Worshipers hung their sandals on the stubs of palm trees' trunks, then, in black to mark a somber month in the Shiite calendar, made their way across the dusty and worn asphalt, vainly swept.

While this can be a somber month, the three days which follow it are more exciting, with celebrations and partying the order of the day in Dubai.

On the morning of April 7, the date the killing began in earnest, the government is planning a somber march through the city, followed by 10 minutes of silence.

Antoinette DiPietropolo, the choreographer, has found telling steps for every scene, whether it is a love duet, a somber march into battle or the boisterous high jinks of sailors and Seabees belting "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame".

Related: Thousands Mourn Boris Nemtsov at Somber March in Moscow.

Ms. Malkki did not let you forget that Beethoven's somber funeral march movement is, after all, a march.

In fact, the general atmosphere in Rome has been somber since Sept. 11 -- and skittish, too, since the United States State Department announced on Sept. 28 that officials had credible information that "symbols of American capitalism" in Italy might be targeted by terrorists.

She played on the Cannon for 25 minutes after intermission accompanied by her quintet -- Mr. Gierig on piano, Chris Lithcap on bass, Alvester Garnett on drums and the percussionist Mayra Casales -- and again created a meditative atmosphere with her somber "Forever February," her own composition, dedicated to Detroit's long winters.

Remember the opening scenes of Godfather: Part 2: the somber funeral march through a barren gully in Sicily, with the wails of the lamenting women?

The pieces span a variety of themes ranging from the somber funeral march of number three to the majestic canon of number six, the Moments musicaux are both Rachmaninoff's return to and revolution of solo piano composition.

"On this day, my thoughts turn to the somber events of Sept. 11, 2001, when so many innocent lives were lost in the brutal assault on the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the further attacks in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania," the pope wrote.