How to Use macabre in a Sentence

macabre

adjective
  • Police discovered a macabre scene inside the house.
  • The fire in the belly of Mrs. Lovett’s macabre oven doesn’t extend to his.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • Even in the darkest of times, I'm drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
    Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • That’s far more real to me than some of the macabre things going on with the world.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
  • At first glance, the work of artist Charlotte Kingsnorth can read a bit macabre.
    Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
  • But there’s a deeper issue to be gleaned from the macabre mess.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The result is racks of bat and spooky-themed tops and such, plus unusual items from the world of the macabre.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Over time, other orcas in the area picked up this macabre act.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout the month, Pot Roast’s Mom grieved by making macabre jokes about the cat’s last days.
    NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But most dark tourists seek meaning, not merely the deeply macabre.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Even for a sport named skeleton, some of the helmet designs skew macabre.
    Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The team behind Dinner by Heston has a taste for the macabre.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In the video accompanying the ad, the tooth is yanked from a child’s mouth via a string like in some creepy, macabre game.
    Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 7 July 2017
  • But at the end of a week dominated by macabre news, Knight's return was the rare bright spot.
    Author: Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • There are pageant queens and comedy queens and macabre queens and bearded queens.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2018
  • The macabre image showed four wrists, two hands, and at least 12 fingers between them.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Before and after shows, guests can roam through five rooms, which all have macabre themes.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In court proceedings, more of Bolinger’s macabre desires came to light.
    Max Londberg, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This isn’t to suggest that watching the show is all a macabre, oppressive slog.
    Richard Lawson, HWD, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Witnesses described a macabre scene, with dead and injured strewn on the road.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Darrell Schoppe came across the macabre scene on Friday morning.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
  • Though not specifically tied to Halloween, this is the month their macabre themes are in the spotlight.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Over the next four years, the teeth were sorted and identified in a macabre building full of boxed human body parts.
    Tom Taylor, SI.com, 16 June 2017
  • The film follows a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • There is no other city in the UK that exemplifies this macabre mantra more than Sheffield.
    SI.com, 13 July 2019
  • The announcement from the Butte County Sheriff illustrates the macabre challenges for those in the field.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Subsequent sequels expanded the scope of the world of the game and its macabre mythology.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The teenagers were on a macabre walking tour, peering through empty stores’ locked metal gates.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The boarding party from the Cygan discovered a macabre scene.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Some of the oldest and longest burial tunnels in the world unfurl in a macabre labyrinth beneath Rome’s bustling streets.
    Meghan Miner Murray, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019

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