Synonym: gloominess, glumness, somberness, sombreness. Similar words: gloomy, glooming, loom, bloom, blooming, glow, globe, glove. Meaning: [gluːm] n. 1. a state of partial or total darkness 2. a feeling of melancholy apprehension 3. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy.
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91. He strained his eyes peering into the gloom.
92. But yesterday, she looked a picture of gloom.
93. Mones's gloom was almost palpable.
94. Dorcas slipped into the familiar gloom under the floor and padded along until he found the switch.
95. Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection,[www.Sentencedict.com] gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom.
96. In the short term many had been promised their old jobs back, but there was much gloom about the longer term.
97. That thought merely deepened her gloom and she floated on the water, wishing that Ana would come back.
98. There was an unappealing gloom inside and he could just make out the empty pews enclosed by wood panelling.
99. This acts as an excellent safeguard against complacency without the gloom and doom which tends to accompany mistakes.
100. I glanced quickly about in the gloom, and then back to those distant, utterly silent towers of flickering flame.
101. No doubt, in many ways this gloom about the condition of Britain in the seventies was exaggerated.
102. As he closed it behind her, the lingering aroma of rich chocolate emerged from the gloom around them.
103. It is a shame that some of the gloom and doom-mongers in this country do not share that confidence.
104. And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom.
105. He wore corrective goggles which must translate the rubicund gloom of this vestibule into the true spectrum.
106. So in this case the difference between best-case gloom and worse-case gloom is qualitative not just quantitative.
107. In the gloom, she pictured the sad, mad people who'd walked there.
108. They lay packed together in the gloom, trying to make themselves comfortable on the wires.
109. That night John escaped from the oppressive gloom of Sloane Crescent and embarked on an evening-long drinking spree.
110. It is Labour's insistence on putting the cart before the horse which fills me with gloom.
111. The film takes place during foggy days in London and in the gloom of darkened rooms and candlelit corridors.
112. The tram clanged its bell and rattled off angrily into the gloom.
113. She managed to find a taxi in the cavernous gloom of the station.
114. There are, however, at least three good reasons to believe that the gloom over jobs is overdone.
115. The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene.
116. A long-tailed, hawk-like bird emerged from the trees, dusky shape in the gloom.
117. A tall figure appeared in the canyon gloom; it had an enormous head.
118. We stand like three old trees in winter, quivering in the gloom.
119. Instead, he walked through the thickening twilight gloom to the local post office.
120. The train sped along, countryside flying by in the gloom outside.