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Example sentences for "glooming"

Lexicographically close words:
gloomed; gloomier; gloomiest; gloomily; gloominess; glooms; gloomy; glora; gloriae; gloriam
  1. Two glooming pools made dark patches in the lighter soil, and they heard the stir of fish.

  2. Together they plumbed their desire and found wickedness glooming at the bottom, and they were conscious of themselves and of all evil.

  3. He arose and began striding through the narrow room, kicking stones from one side of the place to the other and glooming fiercely at everybody.

  4. Tom sat glooming over it for a time, shrouding himself in tobacco smoke.

  5. The twilight was glooming to dusk when Silas Crafts came out of the church and locked the door behind him.

  6. He let the plodding horse measure a full half-mile before he turned and looked at her with anger and despair glooming in his eyes.

  7. Then, by the glooming shades of the overhanging rock, he judged that daylight was waning.

  8. SONG I I' the glooming light Of middle night So cold and white, Worn Sorrow sits by the moaning wave; Beside her are laid Her mattock and spade, For she hath half delved her own deep grave.

  9. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats.

  10. High overhead a huge bird of prey circled in the now glooming twilight, as though searching with lingering reluctance for some sign of life, where there was no life, ere seeking its roost among the black recesses of yon cliff-walled chasm.

  11. There is sadness glooming out of him, but no unkindness nor asperity.

  12. There was an eternal hush, a gross silence, over the glooming aisles that seemed to beckon to the soul, to draw the heart into the night of foliage as into a cavern.

  13. Then he sat still on his black horse with his sword over his shoulder, and looked into the wood with dark, glooming eyes.

  14. Before dark she noticed that the land ascended, and afterwards they left the river below, for a glooming pile of mountain was to be climbed.

  15. Mount Royal stood dome-like on Montreal island, a huge shadow glooming out of the north-west upon the little village.

  16. And so in a while Beltane, sighing, turned and led the way down the hill towards the glooming shadow of the woods; but ever as they went the flames waxed fiercer behind them and the madman's laughter shrilled upon the air.

  17. Forthwith Walkyn lifted his axe and strode off up the slope until he and his sixty men had vanished quite into the glooming woods to the north-west.

  18. What she was glooming over was that Joe was home from a week's fishing trip with his share of the money for the biggest catch of the season, and not a dime of it had she seen.

  19. She found Mrs. Fayal glooming over a wash-tub, not because she objected to washing for the summer people.

  20. Till the dearth of light in the glooming skies Is lost to the sight of your soul-lit eyes.

  21. What are the wild winds, and what are the skies, Frowning and glooming when, brimming with life, Cometh the little maid ripe for the strife?

  22. A backward glance showed Brenchfield glooming after them, the fingers of one hand fumbling with the pendant of his watch-chain, the fingers of the other pulling at his heavy, black moustache.

  23. It was a tall and glooming room, hung with cloths covered with stitching in bright wools.

  24. Of late she had not been out at all; she spent her days glooming at the window.

  25. The night seemed to be growing darker, and she could not make out the mass glooming through the darkness as she had seen it at first.

  26. And the one look was enough for she knew that the great shadowy mass glooming in the dark distance must be what she sought.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glooming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clouded; cloudy; dusk; funereal; gloaming; gloomy; lowering; murky; overcast; somber; stormy; twilight