sepulchral
IPA: seɪpuɫtʃrʌɫ
adjective
- Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
- Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.
- Having a hollow and deep sound.
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Examples of "sepulchral" in Sentences
- The room was dark and sepulchral.
- There are five original sepulchral inscriptions.
- It has a Catholic interior and a sepulchral chapel.
- The youths were either sepulchral or votive statues.
- 'I am the census-taker Time,' I boomed in sepulchral tones.
- "Kiss my fluffy face!" said the Doctor in sepulchral tones.
- This is a description of the sepulchral niche and kurgan above.
- It is preserved in the sepulchral basement at the British Museum.
- It is also notable for its extensive complex of sepulchral chapels.
- The sepulchral monument was assembled in the chapel in June of 1686.
- Besides their sepulchral purpose, the tumuli also served for reconnaissance.
- Moans of a sepulchral timbre drifted out of the dark, and we advanced into the pitchy recess.
- 'She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before,' quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.
- You understand, my lord, I said this in hollow tones -- in what I may almost term a sepulchral voice. "
- Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream!
- The little girl's eyes were shining; the very thought of that other ghost's "sepulchral" tones gave her a thrill down her back and lifted her out of herself.
- Many artists exercised their imagination in both fields; in some specific fields such as sepulchral iconog - raphy, cooperation between religious and humanistic symbolism was common.
- Feeling dizzy, she sank down on the edge of the berth, keeping away from his outstretched body, and pulling the curtains close, so that he and she were shut into a kind of sepulchral twilight.
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