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Meanings of funereal in English

Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial.

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Examples for "sepulchral"
Examples for "sepulchral"
1
At length in a low sepulchral voice She pronounced the following words:
The Monk: A Romance
2
And she made the remark in an almost sepulchral tone of warning.
A Fair Barbarian
3
When I did I found the house dark and the silence sepulchral.
Agatha Webb
4
The rest of his sepulchral performances hardly deserve the notice of criticism.
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
5
Such was the fate of the seven occupants of this sepulchral chamber.
Pagan and Christian Rome
Usage of funereal in English
1
The whistling of the wind through the rigging sounded like funereal wailings.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
2
But the pace was too funereal for the advocates of the goose-step.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
3
The large, shadowy space carried a slight funereal scent of decaying lilies.
French pressed
4
The funereal sky is reluctant to let any light penetrate the grey.
The Irish Times
5
SFMOMA's exhibit space is being specially adapted to effect a funereal air.
Wired
6
He sounded so funereal that I thought I must have misheard him.
The Asylum
7
Sir John groaned and paced the room, agitated by the funereal image.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
8
Pea-green-painted walls and dark mahogany only added to the formal funereal atmosphere.
Hollow World
9
All this tended to make the Middle Ages gloomy, funereal, repulsive, austere.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women
10
Yet the atmosphere at Baily lighthouse on Howth Head was somewhat funereal.
The Irish Times
11
Let her go abroad with her monotonous voice and her funereal fantasies!
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
12
The gloom of the night was funereal; all nature seemed clothed in crape.
The Return of the Native
13
The agony of the ecclesiastical prince was received in funereal silence.
The Shadow of the Cathedral
14
For effect, he removed his spectacles and spoke solemnly, with a funereal tone:
Romancing miss bronte: a novel
15
They come close with their rendering of the funereal favourite 'St James Infirmary'.
Radio NZ
16
Polge is funereal in her green dress, the ideal of dry-nurses.
The Nabob
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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