Sentence examples for were sombre from inspiring English sources

Not all his tales were sombre, though.

Huston continued to laugh, but his eyes, fastened on Murphy, were sombre.

On early Radiohead albums, Yorke's lyrics were sombre expressions of juvenile anomie: cars are dangerous, robots are no fun, plastic surgeons do sad, thankless work.

After 1907, when he gave up teaching to devote himself to writing, he produced his more characteristic works, which were sombre without exception.

They were sombre, hollowed out, some fighting tears, humiliated by the defeat, fearful of autocracy's moving vans pulling up to the door.

Sometimes the bands she made were sombre, in troubled driving strokes of slaty grey, but more often they are buoyant, elegant stacks of dilute acrylic paint.

He was sombre.

Peña is sombre and emotional.

It was sombre, warlike, international.

But not all commemorations will be sombre.

But the short-term picture is sombre.