Example Sentences

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The contrast between the way these people talk about the world, the performative doom ’n’ glooming so prevalent in social media and casual conversation, and their actual, lived concerns seems the point of Rooney’s fiction.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2021

More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

The turtle paddled steadily toward her, a hump of shell glooming dark in the gray waves, and heaved herself onto the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr