How to Use dour in a Sentence

dour

adjective

• She had a dour expression on her face.
• Every show on any television network right now has a murder in it, or is dour. .
  — Josh Duboff, HWD, 30 Aug. 2017
• The result is something lighter and funnier than the dour superhero movies of late.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 6 July 2017
• The dour view does not seem to be shared by all of Dimon’s top lieutenants however.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2017
• Colbert plays it hilariously dour as Feist holds down the song's main riff.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 7 June 2017
• Still, despite Friday’s turmoil, not everyone had a dour view of Metro.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 24 June 2017
• Newton’s excitement bothered some of the more dour segments of sports media, but that didn’t much matter as his team rolled over all comers.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• Those films shared a dour vision, and were broadly panned by critics as mean-spirited and frequently incoherent.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 25 June 2017
• Four days later, he was slumped in a chair at a dour press conference in Couva, Trinidad, holding a plastic water bottle.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The combo looks smart and professional, but the colors are a little on the dour side, at least by Kornacki standards.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
• The incessant rain is as dour as Harrison Ford’s facial expressions.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2017
• Lois is having depressing dreams, memorials are up, and the world is running low on hope, according to a dour Daily Planet headline.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 8 Oct. 2017
• With his thick glasses, mop of hair and dour disposition, Robert is unrecognizable to fans who only know Cohen as an antics-prone comedian.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
• Senate Republicans have offered increasingly dour assessments of the bill’s prospects due to a push from conservative Sens.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 11 July 2017
• In the poll, views of the economy were more dour than at any point in the past year.
  — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• The result should put a smile on the faces of even the dourest of curmudgeons.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2019
• The two home runs sparked what had been a dour start to the season for Machado.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• And, though much of the season is dour in tone, some of its best twists are the product of a dark wit.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• One, from the 18th century, takes a rather dour view of matters of the heart.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• Then, from the direction the girl flew away, Kay hears a scream and the weather turns gray and dour.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Tax cuts, on the other hand, were fine with all but the most dour deficit hawks—the more the merrier.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• If this is Avalanche’s Mad Max game, but less dour and self-involved?
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 June 2018
• Only in the last few episodes do things turn truly dour.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• The mood was dour, the noise was muted, and the easy thing would have been for the Dodgers to simply surrender.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• After a dour look from the new teacher, Sun Juong made her way to her desk.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Jackson was soon carted to the locker room with a dour look on his face, and ruled out of the game.
  — cleveland, 12 Dec. 2021
• But on Tuesday, Summers was even more dour about the pound’s prospects.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
• This year, the day is underscored by the dour fact that the pay gap has barely budged in two decades.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
• This suggests that excessive love and the act of love bombing might indeed have a dour side.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• For as bleak as some of the material reads as poetry, however, the performances never felt dour.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024