Gloom
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227 examples of Gloom in a sentence
After years of frustration and gloom, the long-depressed east of the country – the former German Democratic Republic (DDR) – is finally experiencing fresh hope owing, to large new investments in electric-vehicle (EV) manufacturing.
Doom and
gloom
distort our worldview and can lead to bad policies.
Finally, amid the overwhelming gloom, there is a chance to end long-running conflicts.
Some national leaders have added to the
gloom.
He had not abandoned his work on the estate, or on the book in which the foundations of a new farming system were to be explained; but as those thoughts and that work formerly appeared to him trivial and insignificant in comparison with the
gloom
that overshadowed all existence, so now they appeared trivial and insignificant in comparison with his future prospects all bathed in the bright sunshine of happiness.
The Voreux was now emerging from the
gloom.
It was no longer the meadows, the odour of the grass, the song of larks, the great yellow sun; it was the fallen, inundated mine, the stinking gloom, the melancholy dripping of this cellar where they had been groaning for so many days.
Officers were probing the increasing
gloom
with their night glasses.
By then Commander Farragut, Ned Land, and I were on the afterdeck, peering eagerly into the profound
gloom.
The
gloom
was profound.
Sometimes I tried to peer through the dense gloom, which was broken only by the phosphorescent flickers coming from our movements.
Or was it one of the frigate's longboats, hailing us out of the
gloom?
The ceiling lights went out so quickly, my eyes literally ached, just as if we had experienced the opposite sensation of going from the deepest
gloom
to the brightest sunlight.
My eyes soon grew accustomed to this comparative
gloom.
Anyhow it lit our way, although hazily, but I soon grew accustomed to this unique gloom, and in these circumstances I understood the uselessness of the Ruhmkorff device.
A thousand specks of light glittered in the midst of the
gloom.
Inside the Nautilus all was
gloom
and silence.
Shadows gathered and
gloom
overran the sea until the moon came up.
The flat country stretched as far as eye could see, and the tufts of trees round the farms at long intervals seemed like dark violet stains on the cast grey surface, that on the horizon faded into the
gloom
of the sky.
Julien answered them all with an air of
gloom
which kept them at a distance.
M. de Renal told Julien to accompany the children to Vergy; they travelled in unbroken
gloom.
He is the masterpiece of the education of the age; one cannot look at him without his thinking of something pleasant, and even clever, to say to one; he is brave ...But that Sorel is a strange fellow,' she said to herself, and the look of
gloom
in her eye gave place to a look of anger.
And the leaves of the trees that grew in the wood were very dark and thick, so that no ray of light came through the branches to lighten the
gloom
and sadness.
Then, when he was nigh unto death, lo! through the savage
gloom
there came to him a stately maiden, and took him by the hand and led him on through devious paths, unknown to any man, until upon the darkness of the wood there dawned a light such as the light of day was unto but as a little lamp unto the sun; and, in that wondrous light, our way-worn knight saw as in a dream a vision, and so glorious, so fair the vision seemed, that of his bleeding wounds he thought no more, but stood as one entranced, whose joy is deep as is the sea, whereof no man can tell the depth.
It cast a
gloom
over the boat, there being no mustard.
Although the door was too nearly closed to admit of a minute scrutiny of the accommodations within, enough had been seen to cause the horseman to endeavor, once more, to penetrate the gloom, with longing eyes, in search of a more promising roof, before, with an ill-concealed reluctance, he stated his necessities and wishes.
Immediately at her feet lay a deep dell, but little altered by cultivation, and dark with the
gloom
of a November sunset.
CHAPTER XXVIIIThe owlet loves the
gloom
of night, The lark salutes the day, The timid dove will coo at hand- But falcons soar away.
It is hard to die at the best, Captain Wharton; but to spend your last moments alone and unpitied, to know that none near you so much as think of the fate that is to you the closing of all that is earthly; to think that, in a few hours, you are to be led from the gloom, which, as you dwell on what follows, becomes dear to you, to the face of day, and there to meet all eyes fixed upon you, as if you were a wild beast; and to lose sight of everything amidst the jeers and scoffs of your fellow creatures - that, Captain Wharton, that indeed is to die!"Henry listened in amazement, as his companion uttered this speech with a vehemence altogether new to him; both seemed to have forgotten their danger and their disguises.
Frances listened anxiously to the retreating footsteps of his horse, and, as they died upon her ear, she ventured from her place of secrecy, and advanced a short distance into the field, where, startled at the gloom, and appalled with the dreariness of the prospect, she paused to reflect on what she had undertaken.
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