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How to pronounce sepulchral in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms funereal
Derivation sepulchre


hollow sepulchral tones.
Type Words
Synonyms charnel, ghastly


the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs.
Type Words
Derivation sepulchre


sepulchral inscriptions.
sepulchral monuments in churches.

Examples of sepulchral

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With fewer tour groups in winter, Venice is a sepulchral and captivating city.
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The forms of stone sepulchral inscriptions differ in the Greek East and Latin West.
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Other elements of sepulchral representation, like sarcophagi did, however, continue.
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Everything is draped in reverb, giving their debut album a sepulchral air.
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He also briefly played sepulchral organ in his uncle's funeral parlor.
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Throughout, the gravity of Cash's voice lends something sepulchral to the fondest lyrics.
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Loudspeakers bellow forth the sepulchral voices of such eminent ghosts as Hector and Priam.
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Skying's starry-eyed, cosmic leanings are complicated by Badwan's slippery, sepulchral presence.
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He speaks, and the words emerge in a soft, sepulchral baritone.
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More examples
  • Of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches"
  • Charnel: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
  • Funereal: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
  • The rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel are a group of hundreds of rock-cut tombs constructed in Israel in ancient times. They were cut into the living rock, sometimes with elaborate facades and multiple burial chambers. Some are free-standing, but most are caves. ...
  • Suggestive of a grave; Hollow and deep
  • Relating to the grave