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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.
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.
This elegant advertorial product intersperses color photographs of death-row inmates with somber quotations about the evils of capital punishment from Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr., and other giants of the fashion industry.
The small square here is Thorbeckeplein and you will see a suitably somber statue of Johan Rudolf Thorbecke who designed the Dutch constitution in 1848.
At its center, the Morosini Fountain dates from Venetian times, though the somber lion statues are three hundred years older.