sombrous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sombrous
Example Sentences
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The state of U.S. amateur tennis has gone from the sombrous to the ludicrous.
From Time Magazine Archive
The skies over Manila Bay are typically sombrous, hazed with diesel pollution.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Why not do it, then?"—the anger rolling sombrous as at the first,—he asked.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
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.
From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart
Time's sombrous tints have every view o'erspread, And thou too, gay seducer, art thou fled?
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk
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