How to Use dour in a Sentence

dour

adjective

• She had a dour expression on her face.
• The two home runs sparked what had been a dour start to the season for Machado.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• At sunrise, Lam was questioned by a tall, dour man named Shi.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
• 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
• His more dour brother, Louis, arrives to hasten plans to pack up and head out of the city to escape the spreading epidemic.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Yet after a dour first half performance by the home side, this no longer looked like such an unrealistic ambition.
  — SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Larry’s embrace of this dour attitude seems surprising.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2018
• The trailers have made Infinity War look dour and self-serious.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
• As mysteries go, this one is a bit silly, and that's fine -- not every book has to be some dour, straight-faced odyssey of murder (those do have their place, see below).
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• At first, Kurtis Sharp walked up to the lectern with a dour face and a gold Hawkeye tiger hawk symbol on the chest of his black T-shirt.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2018
• The insult’s second level is more primal and purely physical: Aunt Lydia is a dowdy, dour, and unadorned woman.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
• Still, even some supporters criticize Mr. Cryan’s strategy flip-flopping and often dour demeanor.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• On the encouraging side, the video was a joke, and even a dusty attempt at humor was a welcome change of pace coming from a show whose first season was relentlessly dour, ponderous and stuck up its own maze.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• The result is a series that's beautifully acted by an exceptional cast, and yet which won't be for everyone given its unrelentingly dour nature.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 11 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Just when things looked dour late, Nick Saban had no choice.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The dour phrase calls up memories of Cowan and Blass, of the tragedies that inspired this trip in the first place.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Now the data is beginning to catch up with that dour sentiment.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
• Crime shows have a tendency to be relentlessly dour: missing children, rape victims.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024