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Meanings of somber in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sober"
Examples for "sober"
1
We, the public need accurate sober economic analysis and information, not speculation.
2
Not long ago, however, he contacted S., who was now sober again.
3
But he seems impressively sober about the problems facing the new Russia.
4
No trifling in the matter at all; I am in sober earnest.
5
Many historians have recorded the sober truth, which, unfortunately, seems often Mars-dry.
1
Trading was sombre across most mainland markets amid various global negative drivers.
2
An eighty-mile walk over the Sea of Rains was a sombre thought.
3
The sombre figures of the older gods encircled him in wrathful excitement.
4
Working behind the bar, rock-n-roll-vinyl fan Gabriel makes a more sombre point.
5
Wrapped in these sombre musings I walked beside him in profound silence.
1
Will I see the familiar, drab reality of the original Gerald Livingstone?
2
The elevators were along a far wall, but their doors were drab.
3
The sixth-form library-cum-common room of a Stockport public school is timelessly drab.
4
Thanks for adding a ray of sunshine to those otherwise drab days.
5
The room was drab, disgusting; he wanted to get out of it.
Usage of somber in English
1
The somber warlock was far, far away and would likely never return.
2
His manner quickly altered from light and conversant to somber and serious.
3
But I will refer to such somber times at the proper moment.
4
The hurrying voice of the girl broke in on his somber thoughts.
5
The somber blue eyes of the Virginian gleamed beneath the heavy lashes:
6
That's not exactly the response I expected. He looked worried and somber.
7
The tapestry covering them in places was old and of somber design.
8
But the silence that succeeded the thunder of the guns was somber.
9
On the one chair in this oasis, the somber gentleman seated himself.
10
Jones recognized the cream mustang; he knew the somber, sinister, broad face.
11
Through the side window, I note the somber blackness of the night.
12
Off in the east a reddish streak spread skyward into somber gray.
13
In another few minutes Matthew entered the somber area of deformed orchards.
14
But Mayo gave a somber return to the raillery of her eyes.
15
In an instant the somber silence of the cab's interior was lost.
16
They knew it-thesilent watchers in that somber room-his daughter, and all.
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Somber across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common