funereal

Example Sentences

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Still, more venues are restricting phone use to ensure that the atmosphere is festive, not funereal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

The musicians wore white, flower-print jackets and black shirts as they played funereal tunes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith accepted Michigan State’s contract offer on Saturday, one day after his alma mater suffered a season-ending loss to Oregon that felt funereal on multiple levels:

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023

“T. S. Eliot,” Colonel Cargill echoed with the same funereal puzzlement.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller