Example Sentences

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"I feel that we are disastrously losing this game. And I think it's going to get worse," David added gloomily.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

More gloomily, the holiday was observed against a backdrop of continued fighting.

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Within emotional parameters that other actors might have found gloomily constricting, Nighy coaxes forth a tour de force of understatement, suffused with an almost musical melancholy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

One of the largest film happenings in the world, the Toronto festival celebrated its 46th anniversary this year and, more gloomily, its second year of putting on a show during the pandemic.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021

When Elizabeth finished whispering, April shook her. head gloomily.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder