1 They sat in sombre silence.

2 The funeral was a sombre occasion.

3 A funeral is a sombre occasion.

4 The pair were in sombre mood.

5 The mood was sombre as the Commons sat down on Wednesday to debate the crisis.

6 Everyone looked very sombre.

7 His coat was a sombre brown.

8 He wore a sombre black suit.

9 The year had ended on a sombre note.

10 The weather seemed to reflect his sombre mood.

11 The mood in Parliament remained sombre.

12 He looked suddenly sombre,[] pensive.

13 His face made him very sombre.

14 Paul was in a quiet and sombre mood.

15 She was in a somewhat sombre mood.

16 I left them in a sombre mood.

17 His eyes grew sombre.

18 He likes sombre, muted colours — she likes bright colours.

19 He became stingy with words, and sombre.

20 The night skies were sombre and starless.

21 But the sombre ceremony threw royal watchers a dilemma.

22 His expression became increasingly sombre.

23 Arty sat in sombre mood, thinking of death.

24 The room, with original Jacobean panelling, is sombre.

25 A strange place, cold and sombre.

26 Uncle Philip, huge and sombre, came on to the stage, straightening his bow tie, which was askew.

27 In the sombre main chamber where most of his days were spent, there was no decoration, no contrasting texture.

28 Another one put washing on to a line, gaudy bedclothes and sombre shirts.

29 So right from the beginning of the poem a sombre mood is present in the poem.

30 In the Sixties Gurus and pop music were the thing; the present mood is sombre and apocalyptic.

1 They sat in sombre silence.

2 The funeral was a sombre occasion.

3 A funeral is a sombre occasion.

4 The pair were in sombre mood.

5 The mood was sombre as the Commons sat down on Wednesday to debate the crisis.

6 Everyone looked very sombre.

7 He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.

8 His face made him very sombre.

31 The killings produced a sombre mood at an anniversary rally in which at least 100,000 people took part.

32 But there was a sombre shadow of familiarity to it and after subjective eons of frustration, intuition struck her.

33 It was a sombre meal in spite of Mark's presence.

34 Benjamin remained locked in the sombre mood which had dogged him since he had witnessed Buckingham's execution.

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35 His voice now carried across the quay to the boat, interfering with the sombre piped music.

36 The interior styling is sombre; apart from the headlining and plush seat facings everything is either dark grey or black.

37 If a painter wishes to paint a sombre portrait, he first covers the canvas entirely with a dull brown colour.

38 Sombre, though with a pacy, filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale.

39 As their journey continued Ashley waited for her companion's mood to lift, but Vitor remained silent and sombre.

40 They strutted around, sombre and authoritative, clearly in charge of the proceedings.

41 The fizzing guitars were joined by a trumpet and violin, contributing to the sombre mood.

42 Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.

43 A successor to Thoughts after Lambeth would have borne a more sombre message.

44 Their faces slipped through her mind, round faces and long faces, thin, fat, smiling, sombre.

45 Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn.

46 She chose a dark green fitted dress - not quite in mourning, but a sombre colour to match her mood.

47 The procession was one of sombre colours, khaki and air force blue predominating.

48 The sun was shining brightly, but the mood was sombre.

49 He caught the atmosphere of those grey days when the clouds hang low on the hills and the colours are sombre.

50 In sombre silence, wearing black ties, the Calvinist elders walk between the unusually-full pews.

51 Most sombre of all is the tomb over the mass grave of the R-101 victims at Cardington, Bedfordshire.

52 Our clothing became less sombre and much more casual and varied.

53 If the outcome of this sombre, lovingly detailed film is unsurprising, its emotional power is undeniable.

54 She sat erect in her black, sombre and motionless on the bench against the tapestried wall.

55 Sehnsucht has many intimations of Schwanengesang: Fassbaender and Reimann perfectly reflect its sombre mood.

56 After August 1937 the international political setting and Nizan's individual emotional state were bathed in a progressively more sombre hue.

57 The sky was totally obscured by thick, grey cloud, its base no more than 200 feet above the sombre ocean.

58 By using key lines as verbal motifs, Pimlott also turns the play into a sombre meditation on the vanity of power.

59 This was his supreme moment; yet his delicate face and sombre eyes remained impassive, showed no vestige of emotion.

60 On the other hand, a generally ponderously sombre piece may need stimulating by interludes of contrastingly more vital movement.

61 The hospice movement, in its care of the terminally ill, is the living recognition of these sombre facts.

62 He was sitting before the log fire, his Armagnac untouched, his face in repose sombre.

63 Years of committee work and hours spent on panels in Whitehall have given him a studious and sombre air.

64 He was startled out of this sombre reflection by the sudden awareness that something was Not Quite Right.

65 It was not until half way through the sombre reception that doctors told Phil's anguished family he would survive.

66 My uncle wore a flannel suit,[http:///sombre.html] a spotless white shirt and a tasteful but sombre tie.

67 The overall feeling is sombre despite the contrast provided by the dancing putti on the cornice.

68 Nina faced a succession of sombre gentleman's wear - black evening suits, heavy overcoats.

69 It seems that the staff were inclined to regard the women as light relief from the sombre business of teaching science.

70 Their attire was a mixture of the sombre and seaside wear.

71 In the Allegretto the music begins in the sombre low register and gradually rises through the octaves.

72 Three or four pine trees created a sombre atmosphere in the evening sun.

73 Clara was full of a sombre preconception.

74 The Bank of England has delivered a sombre warning.

75 Accordingly, the crowd was sombre and grave.

76 The next day dawned sombre and gloomy.

77 And a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.

78 The day was chill and sombre.

79 We were at a sombre little party that evening.

80 dressed in sombre shades of grey and black.

81 Oppenheimer looked around with large sombre eyes.

82 As the death toll grew, there were poignant scenes at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire as five coffins draped with the union flag arrived at RAF Lyneham and were met by sombre crowds on the town's streets.

83 When we played in the street the houses had grown sombre.

84 He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony.

85 Mr Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits.

86 In the sombre wars of modern democracy chivalry finds no place.

87 Already , at four o'clock, the sombre hue of night was thickening the air.

88 It has become a sombre and speechless load upon the senses.

89 Even as court fashion took another turn towards flamboyance, the sombre three-piece look endured in smart society.

90 The light of a laugh never came to brighten their sombre and wicked countenances.

91 The couple were reportedly sombre as they laid flowers at the island tomb on the 14,000-acre Althorp Estate in Northamptonshire.

92 The great Vistula rolled its yellowish, sombre vastness around low sandy islands.

93 The sun lost its heartening power and the sky became grey and sombre.

94 The colour of these objects was chiefly pale or sombre.

95 Unfortunately, this happy story finishes on a more sombre note.

96 Local newspapers issue sombre reports on victims such as TJ, a Yorkshire terrier in Missouri who enjoyed the smell of roses. Enter the lawyers.

97 It is a vast, sombre cavern of a room, some thirty feet high and sixty feet square, and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mud brick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible.

98 Burn's novel, vividly and economically written, is a sombre reflection on fame and its cost.

99 Lee Myung - bak , the country's conservative president, followed with a sombre address to the country.

100 But ask him about Illimani - the 6, 400m (21, 000-ft) mountain that towers above his village - and his mood turns more sombre.

101 The sadness of the scene imparted a sombre tinge to the feelings of Mr. Winkle.

102 The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing.

103 The fresh morning air seemed to drive away all his sombre passions.

104 It sounded like someone relentlessly playing the kazoo during one of the more sombre passages of a War Requiem.

105 As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets.

106 She is a sombre, humourless monster although some of her henchman, especially one with two heads, give us a laugh.

107 His outlook, habitually sombre, lay under the shadow of deeper cloud.

108 It was a beautiful house, but it was dark and sombre and dead.

109 When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre.