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

There were funereal speeches — eulogies, if you like — tears and sadness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

The shafts of light homed in on a spectral figure — a slim, dark-haired woman dressed in white, moving at a funereal pace and plaintively singing.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

He looked no different from before; there were no shadows under his eyes, no funereal air about him.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie