sepulchral
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It opens without the sepulchral bells and pounding drums that introduced the original.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024
They exchanged names in the sepulchral darkness and realized they had worked together.
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2022
For example, Twain appeals to the sense of hearing when he describes “the leadsman’s sepulchral cry:—‘D-e-e-p four!’”
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
As with those characters, Tell’s unease is first telegraphed by the careful restraint you hear in his sepulchral narration, in the even tones he uses to deliver both dramatic and quotidian information.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
The faces in the pews around me were waxen with candlelight, and pine boughs, left over from Christmas, sent up a sepulchral incense in the cold air.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Bell Jar
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