Example sentences for: macabre

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

  • This seems strong--you can condemn a criminal regime through an unsympathetic portrayal of its perpetrators as well as through sympathy for those they killed--but it's true that in 1999, Grass' dance of the macabre does come off as weirdly timid.

  • That Big Secret has often been that Jews are not what they seem to be: This line of thought provides for a certain macabre entertainment, but it is also a lesson in how the most inane ideas can have the most appalling consequences.

  • Or you might see him as a latter-day Grimm, in whose macabre universe getting your intestines torn out and sketching other children's severed heads are regrettable but quite ordinary parts of life as a little girl.

  • The WP gives its Turkey coverage a human face, using extensive interviews with survivors and relatives of the dead to paint a macabre picture of the quake's aftermath.

  • The WP points out a macabre, ironic wrinkle to the story: the one passenger who disembarked in New York works as a "grief consultant."


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