LUGUBRIOUS in a Sentence
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34 example sentences for LUGUBRIOUS, such as:
1. A lugubrious being was Montparnasse.
2. There were very lugubrious lines about it.
3. On all sides there were lugubrious stretches.
4. The lugubrious howling of the dogs added to our sadness.
5. The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
2. There were very lugubrious lines about it.
3. On all sides there were lugubrious stretches.
4. The lugubrious howling of the dogs added to our sadness.
5. The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
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Meanings and Examples of LUGUBRIOUS
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lugubrious
a. mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to exaggerated degree
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice.
2 The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3 An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
4 An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a sort of lugubrious life.
5 The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to fail, but his brain grow weary.
6 Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start.
7 These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad.
8 Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.
9 Thank Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of the sword.
10 Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
11 On all sides there were lugubrious stretches.
12 Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of dazzling brilliancy.
13 There were very lugubrious lines about it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
14 A phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious only for me.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
15 A lugubrious being was Montparnasse.
Example Sentence:
1 The lugubrious howling of the dogs added to our sadness.
2 He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.