sepulchral

Example Sentences

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It opens without the sepulchral bells and pounding drums that introduced the original.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

Illuminated only by ambient light from windows and a skylight, “Half-Life” appears both glamorous and sepulchral.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

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

Darkness, the sepulchral silence down below, and the groan of hooves and steam-powered machinery from the levels far above.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros