How to Use lugubrious in a Sentence

lugubrious

adjective
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  • On the surface, the fact Leonard’s quad still isn’t copacetic would seem enough to make Popovich lugubrious.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout.
    — WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Based on the first two episodes, the pace is overly lugubrious and the poverty, crime and corruption are laid on with a heavy hand.
    — Kristi Turnquist | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • In fact, the only way to tell river from field was to stare at the river and sense its lugubrious vector.
    — Will MacKin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • Brass plug in their mutes and lugubrious quarter tones reign in a bluesy, and much welcome, moment of respite.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The actor has a long, lugubrious, whey-colored face and spends much of the movie looking slightly pole-axed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The original lobby and sky lobby are both gone and, with them, Johnson’s sense of lugubrious grandeur.
    — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The same critique can be levelled at most of the rest of the cycle, with the notable exception of the Fourth Symphony, which makes a virtue of lugubrious stasis.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That bravura gesture marked a rare bit of genuine excitement on a night when there were few surprises and the tone was low-key to the point of lugubrious.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the production’s lugubrious strings and club-level bass open up new chasms beneath her.
    — New York Times, 23 July 2021
  • The film is a mess of tones and ideas, lugubrious splatter-movie violence mixed with a confused desire to appeal to the Stranger Things demographic.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Every episode from there got longer and more lugubrious, weighed down by franchise canon and relentless plot incident.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • What should be soaring is instead lugubrious; what should be a ripping good yarn is instead dutiful and a little bit dull.
    — Ann Hornaday, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2019
  • In an effort to make the Oscar broadcast less lugubrious, Peck had hired the stage director Gower Champion.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Practically every scene works toward the same goal, to the same lugubrious, narcoticized rhythm.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The new film focuses on tracks from the subsequent albums Ghosteen and Carnage, and despite those lugubrious titles, the work evokes as much hope as darkness.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The prose is precise, pristine, moving always at the same lugubrious pace, but nevertheless the reader feels swept up, carried along, in a slow, mighty current.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Too often, performances of this selection are lugubrious and heavy.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • No doubt alert to the lugubrious potential of his material, Di Benedetto is more than usually matter-of-fact.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • An English horn then doubles the singer as the other winds unfold that lugubrious kaleidoscope of disconnected chords.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The film is in part lugubrious in its longing for obsolescent objects, in its yearning for years before iPhones (with which the crisis of the film would otherwise be more easily solved).
    — Dini Adanurani, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up.
    — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Facebook, an agile private company, seemed poised to usher in the global village in a way that the United States, a lugubrious republic, never could.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Jo Nesbo, creator of the lugubrious Norwegian detective Harry Hole, has sold over 45m books worldwide.
    — The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • An unforgiving, industrial glare does little to stave off the lugubrious solitude of night.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • The story is lugubrious enough without including this dirgelike music to punish the audience.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The road is completely blocked by angry protestors, and their lugubrious chants and slogans become a nerve-wracking soundtrack to everything that follows.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Some made the long journey to Moscow, others huddled by loudspeakers in villages throughout the country to listen to fulsome, lugubrious panegyrics broadcast over the radio.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • Another facet of the exhibit featured a section on its rather lugubrious-looking, brooding Romanesque Revival red-brick headquarters at Calvert and Redwood streets.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The place is becoming a gallery-style living room for local artists who have spent the past week installing their works within this cavernous, at times both lugubrious and theatrical Victorian interior.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 12 Nov. 2022

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