macabre
Example Sentences
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When that wish starts to come true, his life takes a turn for the macabre.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
I was in awe of the fact that in 40 years of reporting on the White House I never once, in my wildest and most macabre hallucinations, dreamed up anything like that event.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
A few miles from those macabre discoveries, soccer fans will pour into the volcano-shaped Akron Stadium, just outside Guadalajara, for the first of four World Cup matches that will be played there, beginning Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Diamond wrote this waltz-time weeper with Carole Bayer Sager, who beat him to the punch with her own recording; his version is haunted, hers downright macabre.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
The scene as described was a macabre picture — something that might have been created by a surrealist brush.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing macabre
100 SAT Words Beginning with "M"
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The Bluest Eye
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