A gloomier place than the one described in these opening lines of the story cannot well be imagined.
What we may glean from other sources but confirms the general impression, conveyed by the opening and closing lines of the Ishtar story, or makes the picture a still gloomier one.
Diamond's father began to feel gloomier and gloomier and if Diamond had not made himself remember that he had been at the back of the north wind, he would have been gloomy himself.
But the life-sciences have another and a far gloomier aspect, which repels and affrights; and it is so, because they are at the same time the sciences of death.
Otherwise they would remain stupidly resigned, and hour after hour grow less capable of motion, gloomier and more morbid in the bonds of fever, until they could rise no more.
The Head, who very likely wanted his tea too, but for the sake of discipline and education mortified his appetite as well as those of the boys, took a gloomier and gloomier view of them and their attainments.
Talboys grew gloomier and gloomier at the poor figure he cut.
He led me off to a cafe where he seemed to be more or less at home, and where it was bright and gay for him but gloomier than the grave to me.
But mine is the midnight of Death, And Nature's morn To my bosom forlorn Brings but a gloomier night, implants a deadlier thorn.
As months passed away without bringing any tidings of their countrymen, their minds were haunted with still gloomier apprehensions as to their fate.
But other and gloomier destinies were in reserve for the Indian races.
Hegel had listened sadly to the loquacious man, and his features had become gloomier and gloomier.
The two ambassadors, who were closely watching the count's countenance, could not fail to notice this rapid change in his features, and their faces now assumed likewise a gloomier air.
But he did not salute her, and the cloud on his brow grew even gloomier than before.
Glencore had scarcely ever been a very cheery residence, but latterly it had become far gloomier than before.
A gloomier day could hardly have heralded the critical exposition that was to disclose our future lot.
It was not violent; still there was suffering; and, to me, gloomier proof that her malady was established, and the grave in a nearer perspective.
She is the most definite embodiment of all those fluctuating mystical instincts, of which Gaia,* the mother of the earth's gloomier offspring, is a vaguer and mistier one.
This picture, sad enough indeed in itself, was rendered still gloomier by {512} the misery and despair which popular fancy has associated with the conception of locomotor ataxia.
Hobbies of various kinds, especially the making of collections, even of such trivial things as stamps, will often serve the purpose of distraction from gloomier thoughts.
Gabriel returned towards him gloomier and more ominous than ever, and grasping his neck with an iron hand, dragged him into the room where the old man was sleeping.
That day he was gloomier than usual; he was standing upright, as though by enchantment, upon a bare and slippery rock, and he cast scornful glances upon the women who were looking at him and laughing.
The Marquis got gloomier and gloomier as time went on.
The afternoon wore on, and the forest became gloomier and gloomier about them as they marched; the silence grew almost terrifying; and all the pleasure which Freddie had felt in the morning vanished.
Charles, whose health had still further declined, was now, under an accumulation of political misfortune, gloomier than ever before, more completely detached from the things of the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloomier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
