sombre BrE
somber AmE

He looked down at the child with a sombre face.

But he was sombre again when they arrived at her house.

Full of such thoughts, they turned into the long and sombre street.

She turned her head and gave the girl a long, sombre stare.

The mood has been sombre for the last couple of years.

And his face became sombre, intent, he did not really hear what was said to him.

Early the following morning he called a more sombre meeting in his headquarters.

Still, there is no reason to paint such a sombre picture.

He returned the look with a sombre shake of the head.

It was a sombre moment, the end of a pilgrimage.

They sat around a while longer, drinking in sombre silence.

As some of you may have heard me observe, it has indeed been a sombre year.

Cloud was sombre as she returned to the serious matter at hand.

When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre.

There was no sign of any living thing in the sombre depths.

Of that, we have had numerous and sombre examples already.

The fresh morning air seemed to drive away all his sombre passions.

His voice was sombre, because he had a correct sentiment of the situation.

He was humming something sombre and looking pleased with himself.

It is often in a minor key and somewhat sombre.

They seemed to possess a sombre passion of their own.

I built up the fire and waited, my thoughts sombre.

Only the eyes were old, he thought, dark and sombre, brooding.

It was followed almost immediately by a return of her sombre mood.

Blofeld's voice had been said to be sombre and even.

He looked somber in a way I had never seen.

But he turned toward the others with a somber face.

The feel of the book is very dark and somber.

He turned back to us with that same somber look.

This was really a rather pretty place, in its somber way.

They closed in on her face, and she became even more somber.

He thought, looking out across the lake, his face very somber.

A short while later, another light appeared in a second somber room.

"I was thinking about the kids in Iraq," said one somber little girl.

But there are other, more somber reasons for her decision.

With him came a little old man in a somber black suit.

Sometimes you folks get to looking a little somber to me.

In most of the pictures the woman seemed very somber.

There was much work to do, so they returned to their car, somber once more.

She took one look at his somber expression and knew he'd heard everything.

Sue looked more somber than he'd ever seen her before.

But not always was she in so somber a mood.

In the morning light the mountains looked dark and somber.

The music made room for them, but kept its somber mood.

But such somber thoughts are few and far between in this show.

In other parts of the country, reaction was also somber.

It should be clear, he says, that his writing is not all somber and serious.

The simple court was more somber and dark than usual.

The faces around the table of the ready room were somber.

He turned toward the somber group in the seats behind him.