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Meanings of sombre in inglés
Sinónimos
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
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:
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 sombre in inglés
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.
6
It was a week more sombre than any of us can remember.
7
The two colonels were at the head of the sombre little column.
8
The lamps of the room threw the court-yard into a sombre relief.
9
There was a really sombre atmosphere around the place by that stage.
10
The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre.
11
Homer, too, is in general buoyant, the Nibelungenlied is sombre and stern.
12
They talked for several hours, and Schulz looked pale and sombre afterwards.
13
She was staring fixedly at the sombre red mass of the mountain.
14
Bobby thought he was speaking to the sombre figure in the mask.
15
I can imagine them, he said, with a sort of sombre gratification.
16
It started in a sombre way but with no undertow of despair.
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Sombre through the time
Sombre across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
Australia
Common
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