Sentence examples for dour from high-quality English sources.

• She was disheartened by the dour authoritarian ways of Mr.

• A dour appearance and prickly manner did him and his force no favours.

• He called the Kentucky Republican "a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack."

• She became known as a competent and combative - if rather serious, even dour - parliamentarian.

• "Either of those things would've been preferable to something this dour and repetitive."

• It was there, during the post-dinner speeches, that the normally dour Duncan had the last laugh.

• “They did at one point,” comes the dour voice of the Mattel rep, who is lurking in the background.

• Dour officials from the Department of Homeland Security who spotted his posts saw nothing to snigger about.

Use dour in a sentence.

• But his dour deputy Francis Crozier fears otherwise, and a couple of deaths have started to spook the crewmen.

• They would have jaunty expressions, radiating confidence, but then a phone would ring and faces would abruptly turn dour.

• Despite the overture, the administration official said that this round of talks had the dour feeling of heading toward a breakup.

• Instead you might envision a dour septuagenarian — an old white lady — who's spent her entire working life in a basement filing papers.

• Already there is so much orange along this corridor of the I-94 it looks like an particularly dour installation by the environmental artist Christo.

• Trump responded by calling McConnell "a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack" and declaring that "if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again."

• Trump rips into McConnell: "A dour, sullen, unsmiling political hack" — that's what the former president called the Senate's top Republican in his longest statement since leaving office.

• He had never been democratically elected despite having tried three times, and his public image - as a dour, incorruptible disciplinarian - was based on a 20-month stint as military leader, back in the 1980s.

dour sentence examples

• After the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, said Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the riot, the former president released a statement calling McConnell “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack”.

• McConnell said he'd "absolutely" support Trump as the GOP's 2024 presidential nominee even after heavily criticizing Trump's behavior ahead of the riot at the US Capitol — and after Trump later called McConnell "a dour, sullen, unsmiling political hack."

• While the limitations of the opposition are a factor that should be taken into account, Spurs looked a different side with their talismanic forward, enjoying more touches in the opposition box in the first half (15) than they did in the entirety of Thursday's dour 1-0 defeat by Chelsea.

• “Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court…” The opening words of classic sitcom Porridge, of course, as Ronnie Barker's character “Fletch” enters the classic British nick: a gothic arch over a portcullis-like door, leading into a dour labyrinth of bricks and bars.