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

Al-Hijazi joined her relatives in the square, beating her chest to the rhythm of a funereal dirge, tears streaming down her cheek.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 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

“We know the scene of the crime,” Brinker went on, “high in that . . . that funereal tree by the river. There wasn’t any poison, nothing as subtle as that.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles