How to Use gloomy in a Sentence

gloomy

adjective

• His book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for peace.
• The news continues to be gloomy.
• We've had a week of gloomy weather.
• I've never seen you looking so gloomy.
• She doesn't agree with their gloomy economic forecasts.
• Even the gloomy world of the Shadowlands gets a glimpse in these pages.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• For a show so dark and gloomy, a strong soundtrack sets the mood.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
• The prospects for life in the distant future are gloomy.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2021
• Wall Street pros have rarely been this gloomy about the stock market.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
• But that doesn’t mean the look is gloomy—quite the opposite.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
• Here are four things to cheer you up on a gloomy Chicago day.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• But the sight of Jackson leaving the field on a cart eclipsed even the gloomy news on the scoreboard.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 12 Dec. 2021
• The tourists visit the city in spite of the torrid heat, the gloomy atmosphere.
  — Jhumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The rest of Friday will be gloomy with some with some peeks of sun late in the day and highs in the upper 50s.
  — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• That alone would be a fun way to wrap up what has been a gloomy season to this point.
  — Chris Grenham, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The action transpires in and around a gloomy old castle.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• At its start, gloomy and cold with a taste of the defeat felt on Good Friday.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Which, given the gloomy outlook for Democrats, is not a dumb thing at all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• These perfect rain boots are now on sale, just in time for gloomy fall days.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2023
• About the opera world today, Horne is feeling gloomy, as are many of us.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
• Whew, that is all a notably gloomy and rather sad state of affairs.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Still looked up at a faint, blurry glow just behind the gloomy canopy.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2020
• Their comments offered a whiff of cheer on that gloomy day.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2021
• The rollout of Covid vaccines provided some hope in a gloomy start to the year.
  — Dana M. Peterson, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• Even so, the view from the Kremlin is nowhere as gloomy as Mr. Putin’s opponents wish.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
• On a gloomy January day, my phone lit up: Will had texted me a video.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• So things were really slow and gloomy as far as heavy rock in L.A.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 19 May 2022
• And with it, a tough forecast: many more dark, cold, gloomy days of winter until the first signs of spring.
  — Karen I. Chen, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2023
• Being a Mariners fan is as dark and gloomy as a winter’s day in Seattle.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
• Many readers shared that this recipe was a bright spot during the cold-winter weather and long gloomy days.
  — Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025