GLOOMY in a Sentence

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1. The landscape was gloomy and deserted.
2. The little boy sat in a gloomy corner.
3. He would laugh her out of her gloominess.
4. We live in the midst of a gloomy society.
5. Inside it's gloomy after all that sunshine.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLOOMY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gloomy
 a.  imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim; clouded
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The villainy of mankind presented itself before his imagination in all its deformity, and his mind was filled with gloomy ideas.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
2  The sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was radiant.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  We live in the midst of a gloomy society.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
4  There is a sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, that you must not enter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
5  The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
6  Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
7  He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
8  He thinks of the gloomy adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
9  The landscape was gloomy and deserted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
10  Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
11  Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an ailing soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
12  I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
13  When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy building.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
14  A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
15  The man who had been gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
Example Sentence:
1  A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.
2  I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
3  The little boy sat in a gloomy corner.
4  Inside it's gloomy after all that sunshine.
5  His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
6  The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
7  The gloomy weather shows no sign of improving.
8  Despite its gloomy title, this book is not depressing.
9  The only observation I have is the colors are a bit too gloomy and dingy.
10  The gloomy skies and the odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.
11  Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.
12  He would laugh her out of her gloominess.