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Gloom
"Gloom" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Those gloom and doom economists aren't worth their salt.
When you were a child you feared the gloom.
Intermittent flashes of lightning illuminated the dark gloom of the forest.
I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom.
His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry test.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
My jaws have returned to their usual English expression of subdued agony and intense gloom.
The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville has cast a gloom over the county.
The dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom. It was a long chamber with a step separating the daïs where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents. At one end a minstrel’s gallery overlooked it.
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the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.
A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
Although it's always crowded You still can find some room For broken-hearted lovers To cry there in their gloom.
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.
Around all the dark forest gloomed.
Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
"Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.
He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.]
A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.
For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]
Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]
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