Funereal

//fjuːˈnɪəɹɪ.əl//

"Funereal" in a Sentence (7 examples)

He has a funereal bearing.

The whistling of the wind through the rigging sounded like funereal wailings.

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.

A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole ſcene.

"Sounds curst funereal, Zeb! O my poor nunky! Go fetch 'em, Sergeant, and let me see 'em—'twill distress and pain me I know but—go fetch 'em!"

There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon.

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