macabre
Example Sentences
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Kip Williams reimagines the playwright’s macabre classic in a grimly funny, contemporary production at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
“It’s become this macabre joke in the business: What is the most important part of an airplane? All of them!”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
The lack of information in the macabre death has fuelled intrigue and ignited an online following, with many hypothesising about the girl's connection to the Romantic Homicide singer.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
You don’t give your respective ages, but women tend to live five years longer on average than men; a macabre data point worth considering.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
They wheeled and turned in macabre simultaneity; and melted through changes of formation with the weird ease of chorus dancers in Lunar Bowl.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing macabre
100 SAT Words Beginning with "M"
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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The Bluest Eye
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