GLOOM in a Sentence

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For GLOOM, below is one of 169 sentences:
At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLOOM
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gloom
 n.  partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove; cloudiness or heaviness of mind
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  A gravity mingled with gloom was imprinted on his countenance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
3  In general, they conspired to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
4  The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as it expired.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
5  At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
6  One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
7  That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
8  The gloom had disappeared from it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
9  They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, then disappeared.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE
10  It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in all that horror.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
11  Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in gloom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
12  At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
13  It gnashes and whispers, completing the gloom with mystery.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
14  Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon it in the gloom with a shudder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
15  There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, where they appeared to melt away.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
Example Sentence:
1  Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited; for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed.
2  In the gathering gloom it was difficult to see anything distinctly.
3  In the gloom I could only just discern the outline of a building.
4  The conference begins this week against a backdrop of unmitigated gloom.
5  The gloom deepened as the election results came in.
6  In the gloom of the thick forest, they nearly lost their way.
7  In the gathering gloom it was hard to see anythingdistinctly.
8  He remained sunk in gloom for several days.
9  The sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.
10  At a time when news has been a dark canvas of conflicts and calamities worldwide, the announcement beamed a bright light through the gloom.
11  To the dismay of his parents, William became seriously despondent after he broke up with Jan; they despaired of finding a cure for his gloom.