Sentence examples for somber with from inspiring English sources
On this northern island, the costumes are somber, with only a dash of color.
The clubhouse was somber, with an added layer of gloom hanging over the 6-4 defeat.
I sit down on the grass, somber with such thoughts, to watch the sunset.
People there on Monday described the mood as "somber" with "a lot of people kind of in disbelief".
The work is alternately playful and somber, with a firm grounding in the austere medieval troubadour and plainsong traditions.
It's low and somber, with glints of annoyance and melancholy, the sound of a morose witness to his own mishaps.
He challenges the world not with bellows and bravura but with a soft, somber reproach, with an audible timbre of compassion.
Instead, the decade seems to be closing in a somber mood, with many Israelis evincing disillusionment with their leadership.
"Harry Patch," an elegy that warns, "They will never learn," backs Thom Yorke's voice with a string orchestra, creating a somber lullaby with undulating major chords fringed by dissonance.
It makes for a fascinating comparison with the "Eroica," since it too counters somber episodes with a triumphal finale.
The appealing baritone Robert E. Mellon, a graduate of the school, sang with characterful flair and myriad shadings, imbuing the somber texts with poignancy and dramatic vigor in equal measure.
