Sentence examples for somber places from inspiring English sources

Hidden Story of D-Day The military cemeteries near the D-Day beaches of Normandy are sad and somber places, filled with the graves of thousands of soldiers who died during the 1944 invasion.

They can be somber places; some are virtually unchanged from the time when militias used machetes, clubs and guns to kill as many Tutsi and moderate Hutu as they could.

The Mets' clubhouse remained a somber place yesterday.

A jewelry store is generally a staid, rather somber place, reminiscent of a museum or library.

Kasadela has been nearly empty every time I've visited, and pretty quiet, yet it's not a somber place.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The intersection of Granville and Robson Streets, the center of what is referred to here as the party zone, was a somber place Monday night.

My impression of the church used to be that it was a somber place of penance, but the pope made it into something of a joy for me".

Even on a sunny afternoon it was a somber place; one had only to imagine it in winter -- miles from anywhere, night fallen and the snows lying deep -- to come up with a picture of scarcely credible self-reliance.