Example Sentences

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In their concern, the people hoped for the best, prepared for the worst, gloomed at the sinkings and took courage from their heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Winston Churchill augustly gloomed: "A great world statesman has fallen, and with him his country will undergo a period of anxiety and perhaps a temporary eclipse."

From Time Magazine Archive

"I never got the right club in my hand all day," he gloomed.

From Time Magazine Archive

James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course.

From Time Magazine Archive

He snorted, gloomed, looked up into Chamberlain’s eyes and blinked.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara