Sombre Definition

Sombre Sentence Examples

• Her hair is cut short, and her bridal robes are exchanged for the sombre religious habit.

• They are comparatively inactive at all seasons; indeed, the action of the tides and back-waters and the tangle of vegetation in the sombre swamps and forests through which they run, often render their currents almost imperceptible at ordinary water.

• The black pine, P. austriaca, generally now regarded as a variety of P. Laricio, derives its name from the extreme depth of its foliage tints - the sharp, rigid, rather long leaves of a dark green hue giving a sombre aspect to the tree.

• Wide areas are often exclusively occupied by conifers, which give the landscape a sombre aspect, suggesting a comparison with the forest vegetation of the Coal period.

• Vast areas of it are submerged at high water, above which only the upper part of the trees of the sombre forests appear.