Sentence examples for sombre of from inspiring English sources

It feels a bit reminiscent of Wimbledon's Henman Hill, but more sombre of course.

Lots of sombre shots of Batman walking out of flaming wreckage and Superman hovering in a stormy sky.

I was trying to figure out the meaning of the sombre pair of black, speckled panels – by the Norwegian artist Mette Stausland – when the aroma wafted into my bedroom.

The dark and sombre nature of most of the nominated films was largely reflected in a sober, stolid ceremony.

The occasion was the sombre meeting of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

After battling with politicians who want the TV spots to be sombre reflections of the horrors of the dictatorship, his vision wins out.

Yesterday, despite - or perhaps because of - the sombre background of events in Iraq, he made his best conference speech so far.

On one wall there are blown-up photographs: Avedon's sombre study of the Beatles; portraits of Joan Baez, Norman Thomas, and George Wallace.

Frank Ledwidge's sombre review of the vast cost of our Afghan venture shows how vital it is that they are restarted – and that they succeed.

The ubiquity of clocks was a sombre reminder of mortality, complained the painter Phillipe Mercier.

Perhaps the outpouring of grief over the deaths of Neil, Kazumi and Sam Puttick is, in part, a sombre expression of thanks for the same gift.