Am I using this semicolon right? "Muir's tone was sad or depressed; the tone he used was gloomy as well."

yup ^-^

Explanation:

when you are combining two separate thoughts into one sentence you use a semicolon.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

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