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 mood was not festive, though wasn’t exactly funereal either.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

In the fall of 1980, Maya Lin was a senior at Yale University, taking a class on funereal architecture, studying how cemeteries and monuments reflect attitudes toward death.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge