funereal

How To Use funereal In A Sentence

• After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
• ‘Mäander’ is an incredible, multi-layered sound world of 4 or 5 layers of clarinets that is atonal, arrhythmic, ominous, and funereal.
• She doesn't want you to spoil them by looking gloomy and funereal. Times, Sunday Times
• Practice was a sullen affair, conducted with an almost funereal lack of enthusiasm. Times, Sunday Times
• There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings. Psychedelic Denver
• A dark, sometimes almost funereal, mood prevails. Times, Sunday Times
• A prairie fire had swept away all traces of vegetation and there was a black, funereal mantle as far as the eye could reach in every direction.
• Practice was a sullen affair, conducted with an almost funereal lack of enthusiasm. Times, Sunday Times
• The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.
• It was dusk and that just defined the dark, sombre, funereal feeling of the time. Times, Sunday Times