How to Use macabre in a Sentence

macabre

adjective

• Police discovered a macabre scene inside the house.
• 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
• But there’s a deeper issue to be gleaned from the macabre mess.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• Over time, other orcas in the area picked up this macabre act.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Even in the darkest of times, I'm drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• But most dark tourists seek meaning, not merely the deeply macabre.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2017
• There are pageant queens and comedy queens and macabre queens and bearded queens.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 2 May 2018
• Even for a sport named skeleton, some of the helmet designs skew macabre.
  — Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• 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
• At first glance, the work of artist Charlotte Kingsnorth can read a bit macabre.
  — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
• The fire in the belly of Mrs. Lovett’s macabre oven doesn’t extend to his.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Witnesses described a macabre scene, with dead and injured strewn on the road.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Subsequent sequels expanded the scope of the world of the game and its macabre mythology.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• The point of this macabre census was to understand the origins of our own behavior.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2016
• Before and after shows, guests can roam through five rooms, which all have macabre themes.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 29 Sep. 2022
• 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
• This isn’t to suggest that watching the show is all a macabre, oppressive slog.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 17 Oct. 2017
• The team behind Dinner by Heston has a taste for the macabre.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
• By that point in this extended adventure, the task had taken on a macabre air.
  — New York Times, 16 July 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 boarding party from the Cygan discovered a macabre scene.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2021
• The cheerfulness with which the subject has been embraced and shouted is almost macabre.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2013
• 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
• In court proceedings, more of Bolinger’s macabre desires came to light.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 16 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The teenagers were on a macabre walking tour, peering through empty stores’ locked metal gates.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Owners of other shops that deal in macabre keepsakes were reluctant to talk on the record about the case Thursday.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Death on film has long been a macabre fascination for some audiences.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024