How to use gloom in a sentence

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• The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.From the entry leaden
• His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.From the entry doom and gloom
• The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.From the entry doom and gloom
• The event deepened the prevailing gloom.From the entry deepen
• It gets louder, until a bright red High Speed Train cuts through the gloom.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32. From the entry louder
• Perched tailorwise on the bed, I myself stared like an owl into the gloom.2014, Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love, page 126. From the entry tailorwise
• Emily had cut short these 3 A.M. glooms with a hooker of bourbon.1993, Herman Wouk, The Hope (novel), page 675. From the entry hooker
• My father 'would read my school reports with a gloom which in other respects they scarcely warranted.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 25. From the entry head
• On the stage of the Gotham gloom reigned. . . .1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Jill the Reckless. From the entry orchestra pit
• Fu-Manchu, to see the gleaming, chatoyant eyes, greenly terrible, as they sought to pierce the gloom.1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry chatoyant
• He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around like a chicken with the pip.1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 15, in Arizona Nights. From the entry like a chicken with the pip
• Moreover, Caillette experienced a superior sadness, sifted through years of infestivity and gloom.1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose (2009 reprint), p. 70. From the entry infestivity
• There will be a tenebral gloom in that place.2026, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Critical Role campaign 4, episode 29. From the entry tenebral
• The overground is ten minutes walk through the gloom.2013, Tobias Hill, The Cryptographer. From the entry overground
• These combined odours somewhat dispersed Dan's gloom when he came back in squeaky Sunday shoes and a bunglesome cut-away coat.2013, Willa Cather, One of Ours. From the entry bunglesome
• My joy shall be in the midst of thousands ; my soul shall alighten through the gloom of the fight !"2010, James MacPherson, The Poems of Ossian - Volume 4, page 297. From the entry alighten
• The parking lot was emptying rapidly as all the Labor Day picnic groups headed home in the murkening gloom.2008, T. David Lee, 108th Street, page 160. From the entry murken
• The gloom scintillated, as it were, with rapidly-moving hands.2001, Marcus [Andrew Hislop] Clarke, edited by Lurline Stuart, His Natural Life (Academy Editions of Australian Literature), book I, St…. From the entry scintillate
• He turned and gloomed down at the table again.1996, William Peter Blatty, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine Books, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry scrute
• The scene around them was currently plunged into gloom.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry elephantine
• It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 21. From the entry eidolon
• A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea. From the entry cast
• When the sun sinks below the skysill (his word for horizon) there is most often in England the gloom of mistiness.1960, William Turner Levy, William Barnes: the man and the poems. From the entry skysill
• In empty hush, in airless gloom, Mr.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry abide
• He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry corked up
• The gloom that had overshadowed the sin-stained race of Atreus is dispelled by the radiance of the glory of Athens.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 228. From the entry Atreus
• Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry space
• A slight gloom fell upon the table.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry hum
• McGinty rose with gloom upon his brow.1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company…. From the entry croaker
• It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom.1911, Edna Ferber, chapter 5, in Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed. From the entry truck
• The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet. From the entry junket
• Leaving him out in the gloom to be killed is just murder with extra steps," Olivia said, looking at the boy, then Olion.2024, Cameron James Box, Mortal Tithes, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN. From the entry with extra steps
• Crawfurd, two islands away, was forced to conduct his daily affairs by candlelight as a gigantic ash cloud plunged the whole region into Cimmerian gloom.2023, Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry cimmerian
• I gazed from the railing with a contemporary Alaskan’s gloom, a pilgrim bearing witness to end-times in the temple of the glaciers.2022 November 22, Tom Kizzia, “End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers”, in The New York Times. From the entry end-times
• The summery G&T somehow loses its clink-clink-fizz perfection as an after-work sharpener and just seems to rub our noses in the dank gloom ahead.2015 October 22, Kate Hawkings, “Drink: make mine a gin, but hold the tonic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry sharpener
• A moment passed, then a bent old man labouring unsteadily under a backsack shuffled slowly through the afternoon gloom toward the Pawn shop's front entrance.2012, Richard J. Sutcliffe, The Builder. From the entry backsack

Meaning of gloom

1. noun Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
2. noun A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
3. noun Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

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Questions about gloom in a sentence

How do you use gloom in a sentence?

Gloom is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.”

What is a short sentence with gloom?

“The event deepened the prevailing gloom.”

What does gloom mean?

Gloom means darkness, dimness, or obscurity.