All 4 Uses of
somber
in
Into Thin Air
- In a New Zealand television interview following the expedition, Hall somberly described how he took their favorite climbing rope and lowered Ball's body into the depths of the glacier.
Chpt 3 *somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
- Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier's terminal moraine, overlookg the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.†
Chpt 4
- Quiet and Moody by nature, Ang Dorje seemed especially somber as we sat together watching the sun come up.†
Chpt 13
- "Andy's not in his tent," he told me somberly, "and he doesn't seem to be in any of the other tents, either."
Chpt 16somberly = solemnly (in a manner that is serious--not cheerful or lighthearted)
Definition:
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(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad