Mary explained the haiku poem by Shūōshi Mizuhara. “The drumming of the woodpecker,” she wrote, “indicates that it is autumn. The season is drawing to a close, however, as the leaves are already falling swiftly from the trees standing in the meadow — a picture that, accompanied by the drumming of the woodpecker, the industrious herald of autumn, generates a feeling of gloomy loneliness in the face of walks soon to be over. Since the noisy woodpecker is in the foreground of the soundscape, it must be otherwise very still.”

The smoggy air of Beijing makes me feel gloomy.

I got gloomy and thought of giving up.

The weather was gloomy.

She gave her grandchildren a bottle of milk and a piece of ham and a loaf of bread, and they set out for the great gloomy wood.

Of the midnight storm which destroyed this gloomy mansion, the older inhabitants of the region sometimes speak in hushed and uneasy voices.

It's been a while since I last saw your face, Tom. Recently you've been looking gloomy all the time, so I was worried about you." "Really? Sorry for making you worry."

The room is very gloomy.

What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of.

The weather in Boston is always so gloomy.