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Example sentences for "glum"

Lexicographically close words:
glued; glueing; glues; gluey; gluing; glume; glumes; glumly; glumm; glut
  1. All the next day he was glum and thoughtful and for a week he acted the same.

  2. He sat in glum silence for a time, apparently buried in deep thought, while Liddy rocked idly in her low chair opposite.

  3. He was glum and silent, evidently as upset as I was, with no appetite for anything.

  4. They were a glum and angry little band of prisoners.

  5. But when, to clear my eyes, I wiped away my tears, the men in the other boat were glaring at us in glum and angry silence.

  6. For cheerfulness is contagious and does a great deal more to brighten up another's despondent mood than any sort of remonstrance against being glum could do.

  7. Wednesday came and the Trio, glum and despondent, talked a great deal, again came very near to serious quarreling, and achieved nothing.

  8. The fat Trendall came in at one station to have a chat with him, and found his chum curiously glum and silent.

  9. Some big, some small; some jolly and whistling, others glum and thoughtful.

  10. Not half as glum as Mis'ess," returned the coachman.

  11. Mis'ess has been to the doctor with her to-day, and she looked very glum when she came out again.

  12. And after that, he subsided into a glum and dignified silence for the rest of the evening.

  13. Julia's smile was utterly lost on her glum countenance, which resembled an embattled tower under siege.

  14. Mr. Grummit made a retort the feebleness of which was somewhat balanced by its ferocity, and subsided into glum silence.

  15. He came home at night glum and silent, the hardship of not being able to give Mr. Evans his deserts without incurring hard labour having weighed on his spirits all day.

  16. But, bless you, he was glum about the mazard, he was.

  17. Why can't you look glum for once in a way, eh, my mouldy lobster?

  18. Charley seemed so glum over it that Walter was about to drop the subject, when Charley resumed it.

  19. They stood watching the Senator work her way into her dock, when Charley suddenly asked, "What are you so glum about to-night, Walt?

  20. But Jim looked glum and tried to dodge under the quilts.

  21. She was going over to Glum Starkadsson's to get something for Thorhild, and also because she wished a walk over the hard snow.

  22. It was not until the fence of Glum Starkadsson's farm was plainly in sight, that he caught another glimpse of it.

  23. Have you such a prejudice against that great people that you need speak of them with so glum a voice?

  24. I am indeed most gratified and happy, Monsieur, thus to feel myself the object of such devotion; but I greatly fear you will prove but a poor companion on the journey if you wear so glum a look.

  25. The chill woods seemed to be rather glum about it, too.

  26. A long glum pause till she said, "Am I fired?

  27. He entered with a glum look not altogether assumed.

  28. He seemed more than ever determined to remain in his glum mood, and the pleasant badinage of his friend during their run out to Lincoln Park Boulevard rather increased than lessened his surliness.

  29. Through the haze of the first two puffs he squinted across at the glum face of his friend, and said: "Don't be an ass.

  30. Bob was ashamed to refuse his hand, but the set, glum look on his face did not lighten.

  31. The Banbury crowd were making off with glum faces and uneasy haste.

  32. He knew better than to sit glum and mumchance like the chevalier.

  33. A gladness was in his eyes that transformed his glum visage, and Gabrielle sitting opposite wondered.

  34. Whenever she could steal a minute of time, away from her father's glum eyes and nagging voice and ready fist, she would seek out Lad.

  35. But he struck half a dozen times; and with glum knowledge that it was the only course to take.

  36. I know not why, but alway I Have found that it is so, That when the glum Researchers come The brutes of bogeys--go!

  37. What are you looking so white and glum about, Smith?

  38. When Wallace claimed Miss Lawrence for a schottische the glum LaHume stood by the door and looked as if he would rather fight than dance.

  39. I have had some rather glum hours and miss you more than ever.

  40. Had Lemoyne been found glum and unpleasant?

  41. The son of Glum and Thordis, the daughter of Asmund, was Uspak, who quarrelled with Odd, the son of Ufeigh, as is told in the Bandamanna Saga.

  42. And madmen steal about the wintry parks Under the high glum walls of an asylum, With eyes lit up in phosphorescent ecstasies, With fumbling hands That grope for things invisibly obscene.

  43. The houses frown Against the beryl sky, yet wear a crown Of hazy dream, or flash a golden spark Of sun-fire in their windows glum and dark; The people blow like petals up and down.

  44. You and I have been leading a pretty glum sort of a life.

  45. I would be a decidedly glum guest, I'm afraid," She stood for a moment on the step, her brows puckered.

  46. We sat glum on opposite seats until the train reached Paris.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    black; blue; chapfallen; crabbed; crestfallen; dark; dejected; dour; dreary; forlorn; frowning; gloomy; glowering; glum; grey; grim; grum; hopeless; lowering; lugubrious; melancholy; miserable; moody; moping; morbid; morose; pessimistic; saturnine; solemn; sullen; surly; unhappy