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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:

Denby is high-minded and dour, Lane biting, Kauffmann gentle and wise.
And on it goes, the show doing battle against our dour memories of those so-called anni horribili with a self-referential perkiness that would do Disney proud.
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.)
In the film's most self-consciously poetic set piece, Ricky shows Lester's dour daughter Jane--in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit--a video of a plastic bag fluttering up, down, and around on invisible currents of wind.