Sample Sentences for
macabre
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    It sounds macabre, but when Mother realized that after she's dead, she won't be able to tell me what to wear anymore, she came up with this ingenious postmortem system.  (source)
    macabre = disturbing because of association with death
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    Olly: lord of the flies, macabre, black, stealing silverware, my sister†  (source)
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    I was trying for a joke, but it came out sounding macabre.†  (source)
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    Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them.†  (source)
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    I asked macabrely.†  (source)
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    "I thank you very much," said Faintly Macabre.†  (source)
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    His tongue was black and swollen and sticking out of his mouth at a macabre angle.†  (source)
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    And she had heard the macabre stories about the damage done to those who had been seduced into strapping bombs to their bodies.†  (source)
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    I'm not into all that macabre crap.†  (source)
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    Finding Ruthie Back in June 1993, during the course of putting together Mommy's will-something I had to force her to do-the macabre subject of her burial came up.†  (source)
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    English snobbery is more macabre to me even than English morals.†  (source)
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    and in the streets a macabre traffic — hundreds of crumpled bicycles, shells of street cars and automobiles, all halted in mid-motion.†  (source)
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    Suddenly, Rodchenko reflected, into this danse macabre had come the paranoid monseigneur from Paris.†  (source)
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