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Example sentences for: funereal

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On a day when Italy is involved in a major international football match, streets all over the country are deserted — until the cars come out honking for a frenetic victory parade or the men shuffle on foot to the Piazza del Duomo for a funereal post-defeat commiseration and recrimination.
The last car, with its funereal platform and tufts of bunting, gave off a flapping chorus that enveloped Dole and Kemp as they looked backward down the rails.
The Independent 's was " 'Judge in Black' is sworn in for trial of century," focussing on Chief Justice William Rehnquist's funereal garb.
I remember concocting many a funereal top and bottom and the occasional black cape on my sympathetic mother's sewing machine.
"The 1990s in particular have been a funereal decade, interring many of the hopes and fantasies of the earlier twentieth century," Davis intones.