How to Use sepulchral in a Sentence
sepulchral
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In the presence of death, the atmosphere in the donor room had been sepulchral.
—oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
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Morse was tall and thin and as gray and sepulchral as a church about to be condemned.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Feb. 2022
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The one-acts are scattered among three sepulchral rooms, and attendants with flashlights guide you from one to the next.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
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At Père Lachaise in Paris long avenues of tombs process under tall, sepulchral trees.
—1843, 21 May 2020
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There’s something not just tight-lipped but a bit sepulchral about the proposal.
—Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
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In Birmingham, the sepulchral skies posed more threat to that record than Pakistan’s cricketers.
—Tim Wigmore, New York Times, 4 June 2017
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Her elderly father, a Herr Doktor who seems to have come down in the world, lives in sepulchral hotels.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
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As López drove the ambulance, the sound of the siren, almost as strong as the smell of disinfectant, broke the sepulchral silence that for days had dominated the streets of Spain.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
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Even by the standards of the Roman Church, the sepulchral ceremony ran thick with symbolism.
—Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2019
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At the doleful close of the first movement, the double basses reached down to their sepulchral low-C extensions, a sound that didn’t exist during Mozart’s lifetime.
—Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2017
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Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this week in the catacombs of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery.
—Washington Post, 4 June 2019
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Nothing can keep this year’s Thanksgiving from having a sepulchral tone for thousands of Americans.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
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Knowing that Hakim’s dreamy voice was floating over a Brooklyn stupefied by a relentless virus gives the entire album a sepulchral quality, as if the anxieties and fear the city felt were etched into the record.
—T.m. Brown, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2021
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Detractors of Lincoln Center have compared the place to a mausoleum, but the absence of artists—and audiences—has made its hulking marble structures particularly sepulchral.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
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That airless environment of secrecy and subterfuge is thick with smoke that emanates first from a censer hanging center stage before the play begins and then clogs the sepulchral shafts of John Torres' expressive lighting throughout.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
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Michael falls off the wagon — a moment signaled by an action-freezing, sepulchral spotlight, courtesy of the lighting designer Hugh Vanstone — and initiates an especially cruel, soul-baring party game.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 31 May 2018
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Hall submerges the characters in sepulchral shadows torn by streaks of light, bathes them in an uncanny brightness of relentless exposure and homogenizing uniformity.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 July 2020
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According to the company’s engineering director Philip Koehn, the new Phantom is 10 percent quieter at highway cruising speeds than its already-sepulchral predecessor.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 28 July 2017
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