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

There were funereal speeches — eulogies, if you like — tears and sadness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

The mood was not festive, though wasn’t exactly funereal either.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

But when the service ended and we all dispersed to our tents, a funereal gloom hung over Base Camp.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer