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Example sentences for: somber

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The conclusion to be drawn from my nine years of reporting on the AIDS epidemic for the New York Native is a somber one: Patients, activists, and uncritical journalists have been led down a tragic primrose path.
The fort has somber associations for the city: Its cannons bombarded the population to put down rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was the site of political executions, including that of Lluís Companys, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia during the Civil War, who was shot by a firing squad in 1940.
The mood, says the NYT , was somber and without partisan sniping, but the speeches were almost all along party lines.
Sometimes she'll whip up a Brontë sister , which is an essentially somber dress with some feminine furbelow--a row of tiny covered buttons, perhaps--to hint that the wearer has hidden fires banked beneath her peplum.
And when you visit a site on DeathNET, you can choose from a selection of somber background music "[t]o enhance your experience."