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/sˈɛpʌlkɹəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
funereal gloom
hollow sepulchral tones -
of or relating to a sepulchre
sepulchral monuments in churches
sepulchral inscriptions -
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
ghastly shrieks
a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
How To Use sepulchral In A Sentence
- He heard the voice as clearly as if it had been whispered in his ear, a hollow, sepulchral voice. THE SERPENT'S MARK
- Much additional information can, however, be learnt from sepulchral sculpture, prints and drawings, paintings and memento mori jewellery.
- The curtain rose to reveal a gloomy, sepulchral set for the play.
- + Some find sepulchral vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into jellies. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
- You wouldn't think it appropriate in this day and age to describe a voice on a telephone as sepulchral, would you?
- Sepulchrals are sacred undead and wield magical obsidian glaives.
- There are four _Sepulchral Brasses_ on the floor of the chantries. A Short Account of King's College Chapel
- He does not, it must be said, match one's idea of a funeral director, being neither gaunt nor sepulchral.
- By many this isolated rock is considered the arx or citadel of Veii; but the existence of so many sepulchral caves in it is, as Mr. Dennis says, conclusive of the fact that it was the Necropolis of the ancient city, which must therefore, according to Etruscan and Roman usage regarding the interment of the dead, have been outside the walls. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- The funeral was a sepulchral mix of tears, pain, and black clothes.
