Example Sentences

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Staring down death, talking about grief, he was casually, effortlessly, macabrely funny that night.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

Intriguingly, and quite macabrely, her will demonstrated her lifelong fear of being buried alive, which can be read in her 1935 novel The First Time He Died.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2021

The effect of the whole was that of a shriveled and shrunken Phoenix, macabrely adorning the tomb of some lost pharaoh.

From Oberheim (Voices) by Leadem, Christopher