Example sentences for: lugubrious

How can you use “lugubrious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Sex Pistols, of course, are incomprehensible without a glance at the two-track uniformity of mid-to-late 1970s music: lugubrious, 11-minute-long navel-gazing guitar dirges by the Eagles and Jackson Browne on one hand; ad jingles like "Undercover Angel" and "Heartbeat--It's a Love Beat" on the other.

  • But in 1946 something suddenly happened: Pollock's nauseous swirls and lugubrious slatherings stepped into a phone booth and re-emerged as his mature "all-over" style.

  • In 1969, Davis ventured into the lugubrious, brooding funk of Bitches Brew . The quintet was Davis' last remarkable tango with jazz.

  • Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.

  • Some time when Malcolm is in a lugubrious mood and we are telling sad stories of the death of kings, I am going to propose, for his tombstone, English, with all thy faults, I loved thee still.


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