Use of dour in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include dour at the start of sentence, dour at the end of sentence and dour in the middle of sentence

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dour at the start of sentence


  1. Dour and hot-tempered on the golf course, Stadler was a regular Blutarsky off it.

dour at the end of sentence


  1. No wonder he looked so dour.
  2. John popped his head round the dour.
  3. In spite of what some nonscientists think, scientists are not necessarily dour.

dour in the middle of sentence


  1. The goods are priced out dour reach.
  2. They were exposed to dour resistance.
  3. Once dour Belfast had been transformed.
  4. The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
  5. It was a dour struggle between two workmanlike teams.
  6. His expression seems dour, chastened around the edges.
  7. The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.
  8. The game proved to be a dour struggle, with both men determined to win.
  9. Once a land of dour council housing, thousands now own their own houses.
  10. Nelly watched the thoughts chasing each other across his dour countenance.
  11. The normally dour Mr James was photographed smiling and joking with friends.
  12. Ranulf sighed heavily, a long way from this dour monastery and his secretive master.
  13. He was a dour Yankee, tall, confident, elegant, with a dry wit and aristocratic tastes.
  14. But Cool Ground is a dour stayer with a wealth of experience, who should adapt to Aintree.
  15. The rectory was a dour red brick house with ivy-clad walls where birds would soon be nesting.
  16. And the only nickname anyone has come up with for the dour former Stanford star is, well, Mike.
  17. Their smiles were like a knowing wink: sussed and street-wise without being in the least dour or po-faced.
  18. The Neo-Expressionists mostly seem too dour to qualify - and most do not make prints on a sufficiently regular basis.
  19. The fearful electorate found Reagan's outrage and can-do optimism more persuasive than the dour Brown's equivocation.
  20. Ravel Morrison settled a dour encounter with Bolton in the Manchester Senior Cup with a jet-propelled strike in the 94th minute.
  21. There is an amount of innocence and naivety present in their songs that glides over current dour factions in the alternative sector.
  22. The trout settled into their new habitat and became relatively wild, dour and more discriminating, some growing to considerable size.
  23. After our dour 3-0 defeat against Leech, we certainly had that carefree spirit in our midweek encounter with champions Gosling Celtic.
  24. Surrounded by the most dour cast of characters known to man, Paul Merton suddenly seems excessively articulate, intelligent and well-read.
  25. Being poor white, they were not even accorded the" grudging respect that Angus Macintosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families."

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