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Meanings of sombre in английском

Lacking brightness or color; dull.

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Grave or even gloomy in character.

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Examples for "melancholy"
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London producer James Mathé's way with melancholy continues to serve him well.
The Irish Times
2
My eyes are the colour of burned wine; in them lives melancholy.
The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes
3
Maloof took one last melancholy look at his new ceiling, and left.
The Golem and the Jinni
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I am; and it is the most melancholy journey I ever attempted.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
5
The greatness of the affair terrified him; yet its melancholy drew him.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
Usage of sombre in английском
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Trading was sombre across most mainland markets amid various global negative drivers.
Reuters
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An eighty-mile walk over the Sea of Rains was a sombre thought.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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The sombre figures of the older gods encircled him in wrathful excitement.
Best Russian Short Stories
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Working behind the bar, rock-n-roll-vinyl fan Gabriel makes a more sombre point.
The Guardian
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Wrapped in these sombre musings I walked beside him in profound silence.
Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
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It was a week more sombre than any of us can remember.
The Irish Times
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The two colonels were at the head of the sombre little column.
The Tree of Appomattox
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The lamps of the room threw the court-yard into a sombre relief.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
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There was a really sombre atmosphere around the place by that stage.
The Irish Times
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The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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Homer, too, is in general buoyant, the Nibelungenlied is sombre and stern.
The Nibelungenlied / Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the...
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They talked for several hours, and Schulz looked pale and sombre afterwards.
The Guardian
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She was staring fixedly at the sombre red mass of the mountain.
The Hunted Woman
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Bobby thought he was speaking to the sombre figure in the mask.
The Abandoned Room
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I can imagine them, he said, with a sort of sombre gratification.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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It started in a sombre way but with no undertow of despair.
The Irish Times
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Sombre across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Ireland
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