funereal

Example Sentences

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You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

These, however, also feel funereal, like death masks taken after a long-suffering friend has been freed finally from corporeal struggles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The musicians wore white, flower-print jackets and black shirts as they played funereal tunes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

The stunning call — which some attendees described as funereal — added to the growing tension between the newsroom and Mr. Lewis, who has set about remaking The Post since he started in January.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

“We know the scene of the crime,” Brinker went on, “high in that . . . that funereal tree by the river. There wasn’t any poison, nothing as subtle as that.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles