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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:

Nevertheless, the paper called Clark's victory speech "cautious and dour" and lacking in vision.
Unless that is just a dour predisposition talking.
Denby is high-minded and dour, Lane biting, Kauffmann gentle and wise.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
The Sydney Morning Herald attacked the "dour new image" of the monarch on Australia's new coins, even mentioning her "double chin."