Sentence examples for that sombre from inspiring English sources

(Actually, I enjoyed that sombre solo more than the Prom itself).

The opening sentence of the novel came to Bellow at the moment of breakthrough: I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago that sombre city – and go at things as I have taught myself, freestyle, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

And yet the opening salvo of Saul Bellow's 1953 breakthrough is a tumult, a torrent: "I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that sombre city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent".

That sombre greyish haze again ... ..

On that sombre note, thanks to all of you.

And on that sombre note, it's time to close up for the evening.

The Dutch had most of the early possession, and when they went ahead in the 11th minute it became a possibility that their sombre looks may have indicated a severe sense of purpose rather than a petulant resignation.

Digital recreations have suggested recently that the sombre Mona Lisa was once as bright and fresh as the restored Saint Anne, but there are no plans to give it similar treatment.

One day in her doctor's office in New York she'd cried and decided to come to a country that was sombre and old and full of death to come to terms with a kidney disease in her own way.

If I were stranded on a desert island and could have only one contemporary art work, it would be a picture of a starry sky, a spiderweb, or a choppy ocean by Vija Celmins — a smallish painting, drawing, or print that is sombre, tingling with intelligence, and very pure.

While non-Khmer-reading visitors presume that the sombre portraits that coat the old prison's walls are all of victims, he points out that there is a whole section given over to photographs of the guards, differentiated only by the uniformity of their hairstyles.