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Sombre

Sombre | Sombrero | Sombreros

Sombre meaning

Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. | Dull or dark in colour or brightness. | Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.

Example sentences (20)

Episodes that ended on a particularly sombre tone, such as "Monday-Tuesday" citation and "Yesterday's News", citation used only appropriately sombre music to accompany the end credits.

Now I found sombre, introspective men – men clearly marked by the things they’d seen and done inside Jenin camp.

One minute you are jubilant, celebrating an election victory the next you are sombre, pondering what you will do when you lose your seat.

She added: "The first anniversary is a really important, but sombre, milestone to ensure that the profile of 's fight is kept at the forefront of society's discourse in the coming year ahead.

There will be a sombre tone to Summernats 35, though, as it’s the first since founder Chic Henry died in April 2022.

The set-up for the 44-minute interview was sombre, formal and so serious that Rajan was even wearing a jacket and tie.

The trio looked sombre as they made their way into the star's home.

Utterly sombre mood here.

While Cruise's character does bear the showmanship and confidence of shooting down planes, it's the sombre moments of his uncertain future and the lingering grief of losing Goose in the first film that really cements his performance.

Zaluzhny has offered a more sombre picture on the ground in than Zelensky.

Amid such sombre messages, calls for Birmingham’s youth services to be sheltered from the council’s huge wave of cuts have refused to die down.

A sombre mood has engrained the nation, mourning one of the country’s most loved politicians.

French metalcore band is now streaming their double single "Sulfur" and "Sombre 16" from their upcoming record, The Darkest Place I've Ever Been.

However, this is not a sombre retelling of poverty and misery.

In radio, each spot begins as upbeat toy commercials before taking a sombre turn.

In truth, Starmer’s sombre tone was very much in keeping with the mood among the conference delegates.

It is the fault of the European laws," a local French woman told the sombre crowd.

My familiarity with the use of skulls in art comes primarily from European and Euro-Canadian traditions, where they often appear as a memento mori — a sombre reminder of death’s inevitability.

Palestinians prepared for Ramadan in sombre mood with heightened security measures by Israeli police and the spectre of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy month after talks to secure a ceasefire stalled.

Sombre councillors took less than five minutes to rubber-stamp an 18.6% rate increase at a special meeting on Monday without debate.