How to Use sepulchral in a Sentence

sepulchral

adjective

• In the presence of death, the atmosphere in the donor room had been sepulchral.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• Morse was tall and thin and as gray and sepulchral as a church about to be condemned.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Feb. 2022
• 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
• At Père Lachaise in Paris long avenues of tombs process under tall, sepulchral trees.
  — 1843, 21 May 2020
• There’s something not just tight-lipped but a bit sepulchral about the proposal.
  — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
• In Birmingham, the sepulchral skies posed more threat to that record than Pakistan’s cricketers.
  — Tim Wigmore, New York Times, 4 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• Even by the standards of the Roman Church, the sepulchral ceremony ran thick with symbolism.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Nothing can keep this year’s Thanksgiving from having a sepulchral tone for thousands of Americans.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024