funereal

How to use funereal in a sentence

• When the public address announcer asked for a moment to remember all who died in the pandemic, the place felt downright funereal.

  What You Didn’t See on TV at the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony | Sean Gregory, Alice Park and Aria Chen/Tokyo | July 23, 2021 | Time

• Everything connected with the dinner has become funereal in his mind.

  Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The Daily Pic: Francois Curlet made a funereal Jaguar, then filmed it as a thriller's prop.

  World's Coolest Hearse? | Blake Gopnik | August 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• When she came to power in 1978, Britain was a dreary, dreary place: dingy, funereal, abashed, scruffy, feckless.

  How Margaret Thatcher Transformed British Politics | Tunku Varadarajan | April 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The Frenchman shrugged his shoulders as he stepped into his perfectly-appointed but funereal-looking little brougham.

  The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills