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Example sentences for: somber

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And when you visit a site on DeathNET, you can choose from a selection of somber background music "[t]o enhance your experience."
The park, with its shady trees, cooling fountains, and somber bronze statues, including one of Luis Muñoz Marín, is where people come to take a break from the midday heat.
And for once, the candidates look like heads of state before they've even taken office, clad in the same somber outfit as Prime Minister Netanyahu, Boris Yeltsin, or President Karimor of Uzbekistan--a very dark suit, a pure white shirt with starched spread or pointed collar, and a tie with a generous but disciplined pattern.
Gus Frias presents a much more somber picture of the violent way of life led by those in la vida loca.
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.