Thesaurus / sepulchral
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before, quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON
It was, indeed, a strange scene which was thus witnessed in these sepulchral caverns.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
A valuable collection of sepulchral remains has been made and placed in the local museum.
THE TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAINJAMES OLIVER BEVAN
It consists of a series of large and gloomy caverns utterly unlike the sepulchral crypts below.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
In the Cloister garden of the Cathedral are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman warrior.
THE TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAINJAMES OLIVER BEVAN
See Fig. 85, a copy of a broken sepulchral slab, in which the prophets booth is reduced to a single branch of a gourd.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
By this sepulchral light we could just catch a view of the walls, and prevent our knocking our heads in trying to walk.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICO
His youthful system could endure it no longer: he uttered a moaning, sepulchral groan, and sunk to the floor!
CHARLES DURANTHE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOS
Not all of the tombs have the sepulchral chamber, the remains being sometimes deposited in the earth beneath the monument.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTON
"A particular —— skunk," added another in sepulchral accents.
MRS. SKAGGS'S HUSBANDS AND OTHER STORIESBRET HARTE
WORDS RELATED TO SEPULCHRAL
- black
- bleak
- blue
- caliginous
- cloudy
- dark
- depressive
- dim
- dingy
- dire
- dismal
- dispiriting
- doleful
- down
- drab
- dragged
- dreary
- dull
- dusky
- earnest
- funereal
- gloomy
- grave
- grim
- hurting
- joyless
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- murky
- no-nonsense
- obscure
- sedate
- sepulchral
- serious
- shadowy
- shady
- sober
- solemn
- sourpuss
- staid
- tenebrous
- weighty
- abnormal
- absurd
- appalling
- demoniac
- devilish
- eerie
- ethereal
- extraordinary
- fiendish
- frightening
- funereal
- ghastly
- ghostly
- ghoulish
- hair-raising
- haunted
- heavenly
- hyperphysical
- miraculous
- nightmarish
- not of this world
- phantom
- preternatural
- ridiculous
- scary
- sepulchral
- spectral
- spooky
- sublime
- superhuman
- uncanny
- ungodly
- unholy
- unreasonable
- weird
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