How to Use dour in a Sentence

dour

adjective

• She had a dour expression on her face.
• In the poll, views of the economy were more dour than at any point in the past year.
  — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• On top of all this dour news, the Gravity emerges as a sign of new hope for Lucid.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Nov. 2023
• Sharon is the third from oldest and was dour and moody growing up and all anyone did was pick on Sharon.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• So chances are high that someone else has a copy and that person might know who the dour pastor is.
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• And the view through the backlight is largely obscured by dour velvet drapes.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2023
• The dour January doesn’t mean that 2022 overall will be poor for stocks.
  — William Power, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• The dour assessment from the ratings company was the latest hit to the U.K.
  — Julie Steinberg, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
• And polls show voters have a dour view on the economy -- and mostly blame Biden for their woes.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• CEOs turned more dour in the latest Fortune Deloitte poll.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
• There have been times in Gallagher’s history when the kitchen dropped the ball, the waiters trudged through the motions and the greeting at the door could be dour.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• On the comedy end, Jack Dee’s dour bit stops the quiz multiple times.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
• Still, the dour outlook for large-caps as a whole obscures a gulf between the growth and value tranches.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
• The season was effectively over anyway; the team had no chance at the playoffs, and the mood in the clubhouse was dour.
  — Dave Eggers, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2023
• Rickman is great as Harry, a dour and stuck middle-ager, but there’s no way Karen takes him back.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
• Who is to say that the soundtrack to the revolution must always be dour and angry.
  — Susan X Jane, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2022
• Unbeknownst to all of us, the anti-aging drug has rather dour and sour side effects.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Smiles crack easy for him, softening a face that was once famous as the leathery, tight-as-a-fist mug of the depressed and dour Max Payne.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• Some of McConnell's top deputies have sounded dour about the proposal.
  — Lauren Fox, CNN, 12 July 2021
• Still, without spoiling too much, this is not a dour exploration of love lost.
  — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• Many on Wall Street entered 2023 with a dour forecast for the U.S. stock market and economy.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2023
• Oklahoma: For a school that has lost just 10 football games in the past five years, Sooners’ fans have been pretty dour this year.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024