Example Sentences

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I realize I’m part of a very small, self-selecting audience for a formally austere, funereally gloomy Portuguese art film that, like all Costa’s work, has drawn little attention beyond festivals.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2020

Instead, it began funereally, then segued to revelry, then to fireside unbuttoning, and ended not only with horror but with broken hearts across the realm.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

Jagger, who was still a student at the London School of Economics, wore a striped sweater and corduroys; Richards a funereally dark suit; while Jones pogoed up and down, leering at the women.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2012

Rotating like the head of a fan at a funereally slow tennis game, the camera plays tricks that kept last night’s audience in an ecstasy of masochism.

From Time • Oct. 19, 2011

We slip up the cellar stairs and out to Blackcliff’s funereally quiet grounds.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir