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How To Use Glumly In A Sentence

  • ‘Now all we have to do is find out way back out to the motorway again,’ Graham said, just a little glumly.
  • Danny is pushing his food around the plate with his cutlery glumly.
  • So the youngest member glumly goes off alone to play a videogame. In Scary Darkness, Seeing the Light
  • Nevertheless, I find myself at this weird juncture, a cultural snag wrapped in a conundrum shaped like a question mark dressed in scratchy raw Japanese selvedge and smoking American Spirits, glumly, in a grungy hoody, outside the bike shop, twitching just a little. Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire
  • The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence.
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  • Two hours later Shelley glumly rescued her over-baked potato from the oven, grated some Red Leicester over it and ate at the kitchen table.
  • Becky, the eldest, was staring glumly at her latest present.
  • Eventually, Davey Johnson, the Mets manager, stopped pitching Sisk at Shea, an embarrassing decision that the ballplayer glumly accepted. The One Met Their Fans Most Loved to Hate
  • I glumly consign a notebook packed full of rib-ticklers about bratwurst and square-headed men with no sense of humour to the bin.
  • In early 2005, when a group of former aides asked if there was anything he was unhappy about, Yeltsin replied glumly: “Yes, the state of the country.” The Return
  • Very soon after the indictment of Mr. Libby, the tricoteuses glumly conceded that no conspiracy has been uncovered.
  • But his downcast eyes examine the ground as glumly as a man who has just been told he has cancer. Times, Sunday Times
  • The appointed PD pled him not guilty at the postindictment arraignment; Tim watched the proceedings glumly from a wheelchair. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • Williams sat at her desk, staring glumly at her open notebook, rereading the filled pages.
  • A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a gleaming suburb. Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor
  • Glumly, Brown will know that "bigotgate" will dominate the news agenda until 8. 30pm tonight, when the debate begins. Gordon Brown's campaign disaster
  • Sammy sat glumly in the comfy, high-backed chair in her room.
  • They are a familiar sight, glumly pamphleting on the streets downtown in small drab groups.
  • He stared glumly at the intersection as his friends placed him on the back of a police truck. Somali militants grow more brazen in attack
  • He sat looking out of the window, glumly taking in the commercial spires in the distance; his sallow, yearning spirit seemed to have come forth from some mute backland in which his efforts had a bitter, pioneer necessity. Grub Street: New York
  • Combined with his glumly parsimonious economic message, this social pessimism now makes him seem unappealingly bitter and recriminatory. Give the voters hope
  • He did not reply, but got into the car glumly, with a martyred expression.
  • Sitting glumly over a mug of cold water on the morning of my cholesterol test I came to realise just how much I depend on coffee to get me going at the start of the day.
  • Her mother sat glumly, examining some burnt umber paint on the back of her hand. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
  • She sits by the kitchen door looking glumly out and, at regular intervals, asking very loudly for the door to be opened so that she may sample the weather.
  • Why am I reflecting glumly on such thoughts as: ‘Beware your dreams, laddie, for some day they may be granted’?
  • “What can I say, I fight everyone,” I said glumly. Raziel
  • Glumly, Ichiro nodded as he struggled with his iron bonds even though he knew they had been done too skillfully to let him escape.
  • Her mother sat glumly, examining some burnt umber paint on the back of her hand. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
  • He plays with his Caesar salad, glumly spearing croutons or else sweeping one of those supremely talented hands through his heavy flick of a fringe.
  • Whitman for Governor began with great promise, but it ended with a GOP official glumly declaring, "The Republican brand in this state is death. Report: Whitman Lost, But Payday Was Sweet For Many
  • She stared glumly at her plate.
  • They do think glumly about dentures. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is not the "staring glumly at the screen" problem. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • Glumly, Hoss pushed a piece of breakfast sausage around his plate, sopping up the excess maple syrup that had puddled over from his flapjacks.

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