lugubrious

Example Sentences

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At Tudum, Ortega appeared on stage during Lady Gaga’s performance as part of a lugubrious ensemble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

I never heard Patti LuPone perform as the original Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lugubrious noir-sical, based on Billy Wilder’s storied 1950 film.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

At a lugubrious black-tie dinner preceding the event, I sat next to a former MP who asked me two questions I had never been asked before in succession.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2022

The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

We carried our tools down the cypress-lined path, found the del Valle family tomb, and embarked on the lugubrious task of opening it.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende