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Glum


Definition:

  • (n.) Sullenness.
  • (a.) Moody; silent; sullen.
  • (v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We don't have any reason to, to be honest," he says, with a touch of glumness.
  • (2) The old, optimistic growth forecasts were torn up, replaced by the glum admission that this year the economy will have shrunk by 0.1%.
  • (3) But it feels like a painful loss to a small community that once looked to Labour as its natural home – and which is fast reaching the glum conclusion that Labour has become a cold house for Jews.
  • (4) The AU delegation - made up of South Africa , Uganda, Mauritania, Congo-Brazzaville and Mali - left the talks looking glum, without making a public comment and to the derisive shouts of the protesters outside the hotel.
  • (5) We can see why they’re glum, but it’s not going to be a challenge for Private Eye to get a cover page joke out of it.
  • (6) They have glumly predicted precisely that outcome for some time.
  • (7) Sandwiched on a panel between the mayors of Los Angeles, Copenhagen, New York, and Johannesburg, the most rapidly converted man in the city struck out at the glums.
  • (8) (As glum centrists often observe: “He beat us twice.”) The Labour leader might not have taken his party to victory, but he has earned the right to fight again.
  • (9) Addressing a glum group of SPD supporters in Berlin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the outgoing foreign minister and SPD candidate for chancellor, said it was a "bitter day for German social democracy".
  • (10) At times, Sarkozy had seemed tired and glum on the campaign trail.
  • (11) The mood in No 10 grew extremely glum as a steady drip of areas were declaring two points below their own predictions.
  • (12) I had expected the American guests to be in a state of hysteria, but apart from a few glumly watching CNN in the bar, hotel life went on as usual.
  • (13) Conventional understanding of politics assumes that that kind of rational argument is devastating: if you amass the historical data and the foreign examples, point to defeat after defeat for Corbynist programmes or Sanders-like candidates, surely their supporters will glumly lower their placards and come to their senses.
  • (14) I felt the same way I would if I went to a play and sat through an hour of about 50 actors filing onto the stage one by one and staring at me glumly in turn before any actual business resulted.
  • (15) He used to mock me for it, and see it as part of my characteristic glumness, which was such a contrast to his relentless enthusiasm.
  • (16) I can’t make decisions for myself”, she declares glumly.
  • (17) Prisoners' breath catches in clouds while they glumly circuit the courtyard.
  • (18) It’s melancholy because it rests on the glum admission that these two peoples, both asserting their right to self-determination, are unable to determine their own futures.
  • (19) Some contrasted his eloquence with Zuma, who looked glum each time his face was shown and roundly booed.
  • (20) The study's findings may be skewed by Dutch psychologists spending summers doing glum research rather than catching rays.

Glume


Definition:

  • (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of the Ac insertions affect both pericarp and cob glume pigmentation, providing further evidence that the P-rr allele contains a single gene required for both pericarp and cob glume pigmentation.
  • (2) flower glume colour, degree of lateral spikelets development, hairy rechis of the ear, were observed in diallel crosses among the varieties Nutans 244, Trumpf, DZ-02389, Hiproly and Brachitic.
  • (3) The P-rr allele of the maize P gene regulates the synthesis of pigments derived from flavan-4-ol in the pericarp, cob glumes and other floral organs.
  • (4) Four general conclusions are made: (1) anthers are initiated from small groups of 12 or fewer cells in each of two floral meristematic layers; (2) the early growth of the anther is more like a shoot than a glume or leaf; (3) cell ancestry does not dictate basic structure and (4) the orientation of initial cells predicts the orientation of the four pollen-containing microsporangia, which define the axes of symmetry on the mature anther.

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