How to Use gloomy in a Sentence

gloomy

adjective

• His book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for peace.
• The news continues to be gloomy.
• We've had a week of gloomy weather.
• I've never seen you looking so gloomy.
• She doesn't agree with their gloomy economic forecasts.
• Even the gloomy world of the Shadowlands gets a glimpse in these pages.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• For a show so dark and gloomy, a strong soundtrack sets the mood.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
• Wall Street pros have rarely been this gloomy about the stock market.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• Here are four things to cheer you up on a gloomy Chicago day.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• The action transpires in and around a gloomy old castle.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• At its start, gloomy and cold with a taste of the defeat felt on Good Friday.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• These perfect rain boots are now on sale, just in time for gloomy fall days.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2023
• Even so, the view from the Kremlin is nowhere as gloomy as Mr. Putin’s opponents wish.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
• And with it, a tough forecast: many more dark, cold, gloomy days of winter until the first signs of spring.
  — Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2023
• Their joyful world is turned upside down when gloomy, mean Bergens threaten to pull the plug on all the fun.
  — Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
• Dark Blue, Light Blue Brighten up a gloomy day with this cheery jacket.
  — Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 30 Jan. 2023
• The film feels very dark and gloomy compared to the brightness of Marvel’s later efforts, and the CGI has not aged well.
  — Wired, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
• Her colorful garbs stand out from the background of the photo which is gloomy and dark.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
• There would be no way to savor the gloomy shadows; the cool, smooth limestone; or the mineral tang of rock and earth.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• Until that point, the news coming from these areas was gloomy.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Grantham’s gloomy predictions have a track record of being right.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• The 27th brings gloomy thoughts to the surface, and the full Moon of the 31st lights up a hidden part of your solar chart, urging you to escape and be private.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
• It’s bound in black cloth, its images are bordered by it and filled with it, dense and gloomy, with just a few glimmers of white.
  — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• One half of the window — and the room itself — is colorful and bright, whereas the other half is gloomy and dark.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• The gloomy conditions that loom over Sacramento are here to stay — at least through the weekend.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
• She and other researchers were struck less by the gloomy snapshot of global oral health care — and more by the fact that the report launched at last.
  — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 21 Nov. 2022
• Xi, though, was gloomy about the state of the post-pandemic global economy.
  — Colleen Long, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• The merrymaking is over, and the cold, gloomy feel of winter sets in — not the best recipe for a motivated staff.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
• Blue Bomb Smoothie This smoothie might be blue, but there's nothing gloomy about it.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• But there’s a method to the misanthropy, a gloomy, compelling depth to their vivid roadman tales of poverty and unease.
  — Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024