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, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Even in the darkest of times, I'm drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
    — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Even in the darkest of times, I'm drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
    — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Ross Karpelman, spokesman for House of Shock, said that 2017 has been a tough year for the beloved macabre maze.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Should graphic macabre deaths not be your thing, this is not your film.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • 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
  • A couple walking by a footbridge above the highway was stunned by the macabre scene.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Each story has the macabre dry wit of an EC horror comic.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Hardy’s issues seem like some sort of macabre grocery list.
    — Tony Paige, New York Daily News, 5 July 2024
  • This isn’t to suggest that watching the show is all a macabre, oppressive slog.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 17 Oct. 2017
  • This isn’t to suggest that watching the show is all a macabre, oppressive slog.
    — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The Monkey pairs its macabre sense of humor with an unsettling takeaway.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The rampage turned festive Bourbon Street into a macabre scene of maimed victims, bloodied bodies and pedestrians fleeing for safety inside nightclubs and restaurants.
    — Eric Tucker, Jim Mustian, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025

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