Sample sentences for LUGUBRIOUS

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Definition

excessively mournful

lugubrious = excessively mournful

After decades of lugubrious decline, ...
Presently a dog set up a long, lugubrious howl just outside...
Twain, Mark -- Tom Sawyer
It is a lugubrious film punctuated with emotional carnage.
Derby now came to lugubrious attention.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

lugubrious = excessively mournful

He knew, as did everyone else, about the forthcoming marriage, but it was news to him that Anne was one of us, and he received it lugubriously.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids

lugubriously = in an excessively mournful manner

lugubriously = in an excessively mournful manner

In the last act it is important to remove from the picture of the seated dead any suggestion of the morbid or lugubrious.
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

lugubrious = excessively mournful

The drawn blinds gave a lugubrious aspect.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
The fact is too preposterous for tears, too lugubrious for laughter.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories
He seemed to be playing a part, mechanically, in a lugubrious comedy.
James, Henry -- The American
I had never heard so lugubrious a cry.
Leroux, Gaston -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Billy sang a lugubrious song of many stanzas about a cowboy, the refrain of which was, "Bury me out on the lone prairie."
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
Robby's face is so lugubrious that it is no wonder I have bad dreams.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
He broke out in a merry whistle, which quickly became lugubrious and ceased.
London, Jack -- Love of Life And Other Stories
I asked, finding a lugubrious voice at length.
Hornung, E. W. -- Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman
Bid your band silence that dead march—or, by my word, they shall have sufficient cause for their lugubrious strains
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
"Truly they are," murmured the count in a lugubrious tone.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
"... at Vaux," said Porthos, with a lugubrious expression.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
"That I can see," was my lugubrious reply; "but where will this shaft end, and to what fall are we likely to be exposed?"
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth

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