7 Verbs to Use for the Word sombre
" As Sir Bale, each looking in the other's eyes, repeated in this sentence the words "kind," "kindly," "kindness," a smile lighted Feltram's face with at each word an intenser light; and Sir Bale grew sombre in its glare; and when he had done speaking, Feltram's face also on a sudden darkened.
She handed out to them their sombre and insolent-looking babies, and when one mother thanked her profusely in Yiddish, she replied, "Bitte, bitte...."
Then she frowned, and 'neath her sombre draperies her foot fell a-tapping; a small foot, dainty and slender in its gaily broidered shoe, so much at variance with her dolorous habit.
Car l'air, c'est l'hymne épars; l'air, parmi les récifs Des nuages roulant en groupes convulsifs, Jette mille voix étouffées; Les fluides, l'azur, l'effluve, l'élément, Sont toute une harmonie où flottent vaguement On ne sait quels sombres Orphées.
Alexandre Dumas has well summed up the character of Cosimo de' Medici: "He had," he says, "all the vices which rendered his private life sombre, and all the virtues which made his life in public renowned for splendour; whilst his family experienced unexampled misfortune, his people rejoiced in prosperity and gladness.
Something of all this the Button-Moulder, student of men, felt as he watched the sombre yet glowing face of the preacher.
She must consult his time, his convenience, and his humour; and wear a sombre or a fantastic garb, or his Lordship turns his back upon her.