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How to use the word gloomy in a Sentence?

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Almost everyone is going into 2023 with a healthy dose of trepidation, the outlook is understandably gloomy and will remain so unless something significant changes, either on the war in Ukraine or inflation.

Craig Erlam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm gloomy about the prospects for cooperation on anything, except maybe climate, where their interests coincide.

William Reinsch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Beyond the unacknowledged mental gate imprisoned deeply within the gloomy unknown of the ignorant mind lies your answer.

Brandon Garic Notch

added by Brandon G. Notch
2 years ago

Democratic leaders are eager for an expansive agreement, as are PresidentTrump and top Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. But perhaps one half of Senate Republicans, mostly conservatives and those not facing difficult races this fall, are likely to oppose any deal. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson weighs in on the potential ‘ phase 4 ’ coronavirus relief bill on ‘ Sunday Morning Futures. ’ Prior talks had yielded little progress and Saturdays cautious optimism was a break from gloomy private assessments among GOP negotiators. The administration is willing to extend the newly expired $ 600 jobless benefit, at least in the short term, but is balking at other Democratic demands like aid for state and local governments, food stamp increases, and assistance to renters and homeowners. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said restoring the $ 600 supplemental jobless benefit is critically important to Trump. Were still a long ways apart and I dont want to suggest that a deal is imminent because it is not.

Staff Mark Meadows

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Many people are wondering if the long-term bull market is over. I don't think it's over but copper has to hold above $6,200, which is the watershed level for the long-term uptrend, it doesn't make any sense to have such a gloomy sentiment on metals demand. This is a good opportunity to go long again.

Gianclaudio Torlizzi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'”

Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

Credit risk concerns, lack of credible asset quality, balance sheet issues and a lack of reserves... all this makes for gloomy reading for those with EU bank exposure.

Atif Latif

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The outlook is gloomy ... We have no policy any more. We are heading into anarchy, our credibility is in doubt, and that is very bad for Schengen and the European Union.

Jean Asselborn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Strong gains in oil provides a timely boost to what has been a rather gloomy week, but I'm not convinced at this stage that this is anything more than a dead cat bounce.

Craig Erlam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Economic weakness has always been a major concern for stock investors, so today's PMI data is not unexpected, the market has not yet found its bottom as the investor mood remains very gloomy.

Zhou Lin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Global steel output outside of China has continued to fare even worse than Chinese steel output, when they do, they will realize how gloomy prospects are for the longer-term dry bulk shipping market.

Jeffrey Landsberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When they do, they will realize how gloomy prospects are for the longer-term dry bulk shipping market.

Jeffrey Landsberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I agree dry bulk looks gloomy but we feel we're much closer to the end of this part of a downcycle than we are to the beginning.

Martin Rowe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Big manufacturers appear a bit cautious about the outlook, probably due to uncertainty over China. But it's not as if they are all gloomy since U.S. demand remains strong, capital expenditure plans remain fairly strong, so I don't think we need to be too pessimistic about the economy.

Takeshi Minami

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man’s land. Life is an outcast’s journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell").

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Even in the winter time when it's super gloomy, the whole house is filled with light.

Owner Suzanne Wade Ehrlich

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My logic back then was very simple, this was an opportunity to clarify the record, to draw the distinction between the fictional character of Charlie Kane and his gloomy Xanadu and WR Hearst and his beautiful architectural masterpiece at the top of the hill at San Simeon.

Stephen Hearst

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You've got a bounce with the energy stocks after days of gloomy news, though it's probably more bargain hunting than anything else, our view is we're still heading for further weakness in energy prices.

John Ing

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C. P. Snow

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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