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Example sentences for: somber

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Then, as the sordidness and opportunism of the candidate and his wife become apparent, the writing turns somber and dirgelike and full of easy moralizing.
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.
Since tribal members preferred to make brightly colourful fashion statements and generally wore only custom-designed originals, they regarded uniform clothing, particularly of a dark and somber hue, as exceedingly odd.
Their stories range from a mirthful account by a Bristol woman about her shiftless next-door neighbor whose overflowing drain gutters flooded her property, to a somber story by a man from South Wales whose son's leg was amputated in a fearful childhood accident.
On Friday, the talking heads on PBS reigned somber and sincere.