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Example sentences for: dour

How can you use “dour” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Sydney Morning Herald attacked the "dour new image" of the monarch on Australia's new coins, even mentioning her "double chin."
I found him a rather dour, lugubrious individual, and even the author of Webster's Third finds it difficult to recount many tales exemplifying his humanity, any a sense of humor.
Caruso, as a dour, crusading prosecutor, is called, alternatively, "credible" and "likable" (Shales, the Washington Post ), and humorless and "as virtuous as John Calvin" (Leonard, New York ). (See CBS's preview.)
The rather dour building hides a treasure-trove of statuary and other artifacts found during excavation of the ancient shrines of the city, and communal buildings such as the Agora.
5. National capital transformed "from dour city of bureaucrats into a magnet for multinationals."