How to Use macabre in a Sentence

macabre

adjective

• Police discovered a macabre scene inside the house.
• The fire in the belly of Mrs. Lovett’s macabre oven doesn’t extend to his.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Even in the darkest of times, I'm drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• That’s far more real to me than some of the macabre things going on with the world.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
• At first glance, the work of artist Charlotte Kingsnorth can read a bit macabre.
  — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
• But there’s a deeper issue to be gleaned from the macabre mess.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• The result is racks of bat and spooky-themed tops and such, plus unusual items from the world of the macabre.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Ross Karpelman, spokesman for House of Shock, said that 2017 has been a tough year for the beloved macabre maze.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Over time, other orcas in the area picked up this macabre act.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Throughout the month, Pot Roast’s Mom grieved by making macabre jokes about the cat’s last days.
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
• Should graphic macabre deaths not be your thing, this is not your film.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
• But most dark tourists seek meaning, not merely the deeply macabre.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2017
• Even for a sport named skeleton, some of the helmet designs skew macabre.
  — Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• The team behind Dinner by Heston has a taste for the macabre.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
• In the video accompanying the ad, the tooth is yanked from a child’s mouth via a string like in some creepy, macabre game.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 7 July 2017
• But at the end of a week dominated by macabre news, Knight's return was the rare bright spot.
  — Author: Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2019
• There are pageant queens and comedy queens and macabre queens and bearded queens.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2018
• The macabre image showed four wrists, two hands, and at least 12 fingers between them.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• Before and after shows, guests can roam through five rooms, which all have macabre themes.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 29 Sep. 2022
• In court proceedings, more of Bolinger’s macabre desires came to light.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
• Hardy’s issues seem like some sort of macabre grocery list.
  — Tony Paige, New York Daily News, 5 July 2024
• This isn’t to suggest that watching the show is all a macabre, oppressive slog.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 17 Oct. 2017
• Witnesses described a macabre scene, with dead and injured strewn on the road.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Darrell Schoppe came across the macabre scene on Friday morning.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• Though not specifically tied to Halloween, this is the month their macabre themes are in the spotlight.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• Over the next four years, the teeth were sorted and identified in a macabre building full of boxed human body parts.
  — Tom Taylor, SI.com, 16 June 2017
• The film follows a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• There is no other city in the UK that exemplifies this macabre mantra more than Sheffield.
  — SI.com, 13 July 2019
• Goth’s mainstream profile tends to ebb and surge, and the past few years have seen a new wave of macabre media that seems to be cresting this fall.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
• Musician Spider One’s third feature fails not in its macabre concept but in its execution, rambling on for too long in some scenes and then zipping too fast through others.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024