sombrous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sombrous
Example Sentences
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So he took his leave and returned home again; but his thoughts were sad and sombrous because of the refusal he had met with.
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Am I turn'd coward, that my tottering knees Knock as I tread the pavement?—'Tis the place; The sombrous horror of these long-drawn aisles.
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She saw, or thought she saw, a faint streak, like a silver line drawn across the sky where the yellow sands touched the sombrous horizon.
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A pale girl, with great large sombrous eyes and compressed lips, meets him, and places her hand in his without a word.
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The state of U.S. amateur tennis has gone from the sombrous to the ludicrous.
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