funereal

Example Sentences

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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

These, however, also feel funereal, like death masks taken after a long-suffering friend has been freed finally from corporeal struggles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

But when the movie started, the mood turned funereal.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

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

Papa scanned the living room and took in the funereal atmosphere.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser