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
As she spoke she turned her strangely sombrous and liquid eyes to mine in such an appealing glance that I could not resist her magnetic power, strive as I would.
From The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 by Becke, Louis
The curving mountains were sombrous with redwoods, the ocean growled unceasingly.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
A pale girl, with great large sombrous eyes and compressed lips, meets him, and places her hand in his without a word.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
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