Thesaurus / sepulchral

sepulchral

How to use sepulchral in a sentence

Halloween is, of course, the season in which marketers are eager to link the most mundane items to the sepulchral.

She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before, quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.

It was, indeed, a strange scene which was thus witnessed in these sepulchral caverns.

A valuable collection of sepulchral remains has been made and placed in the local museum.

It consists of a series of large and gloomy caverns utterly unlike the sepulchral crypts below.

In the Cloister garden of the Cathedral are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman warrior.

See Fig. 85, a copy of a broken sepulchral slab, in which the prophets booth is reduced to a single branch of a gourd.

By this sepulchral light we could just catch a view of the walls, and prevent our knocking our heads in trying to walk.

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.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985