sombrous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sombrous
Example Sentences
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The skies over Manila Bay are typically sombrous, hazed with diesel pollution.
From Time Magazine Archive
The state of U.S. amateur tennis has gone from the sombrous to the ludicrous.
From Time Magazine Archive
About three in the morning, by the sombrous light of a few fir torches, we started on our journey to the summit of the Piton.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
The afternoon was waning when he gazed again into the deep, sombrous rift of Greenstream: from where Gordon stood, on the heights, in the flooding sun, it appeared to be already evening below.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
Again the tinkling, a low laugh, and, turning sharply toward an alcove from whence the sounds came, the duke, through the half-light and trailing, sombrous shadows of its entrance, perceived a figure in a chair.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
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