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Example sentences for "lugubriously"

Lexicographically close words:
luggers; lugging; lugs; lugsail; lugubrious; lui; luik; luikin; luikit; luiks
  1. Blink, who between his legs had hitherto been unconscious of their departure from the earth, now squirmed irresistibly up till her forepaws were on her master's chest, and gazed lugubriously at the fearful prospect.

  2. And presently the Colonel himself spoke, lugubriously through the door: Not well enough to come?

  3. Then all the lights would be turned out, and the gathering would sit in darkness, singing some lugubriously appropriate song as a vocal valedictory for the passing year until the first stroke of midnight, when the lights would flash on again.

  4. He sighed lugubriously as he stared into the darkness of the night.

  5. It is very cold, and Olie has lugubriously announced that it's sure going to freeze.

  6. The wax candles lugubriously sputtered in the silence of the sick-room, and cast tremulous yellow reflections on the walls.

  7. The “buddy” is the lugubriously stupid and faithful and above all comic Negro friend who in trying to help you always does you an ill turn.

  8. Just a moment,” said he, and a lugubriously cloaked Ethiopian with large, shining teeth stepped down.

  9. Occasionally they have retired to some convenient eminence and lugubriously howled about the Constitution.

  10. The land had resumed, and then he said, looking lugubriously at his note and mortgage, "I want another inflation.

  11. The regiment defiles through the gloomy evening; our steps resound lugubriously and violate the surrounding desolation.

  12. Lugubriously and in a level voice this Earl read out all the writs that he had collected, whether by the King's hand or Privy Seal, whether of setting up or for burial.

  13. She answered, yes, indeed; so he read out lugubriously what was in that writing.

  14. And slower and ever slower moved the sea-mammoth, lugubriously trumpeting her distress and dismay at the plight in which she found herself.

  15. It was after his evening set-to at bridge, when, coming on deck for a good-night sniff of air, he encountered the Tyro who was lugubriously contemplating the moon.

  16. The weather continued to threaten rain, although none had fallen as yet, and the wind moaned lugubriously in the leafless branches of the great walnut before the end window of the narrow apartment.

  17. Her light footstep stirred dismal echoes in the dark corners; the wind screamed through every crack and keyhole, like a legion of piping devils; rumbled lugubriously over the steep roof.

  18. The gong in front of me continues to sound lugubriously at fixed intervals, and the heralds continue to announce me to the people by prolonged cries, resounding through the little powdery streets under the still burning evening sun.

  19. As soon as we begin to march gongs commence to sound lugubriously at regular intervals as for a military salute, whilst heralds with prolonged cries announce my arrival to the inhabitants of the village.

  20. From moment to moment, as the night became darker, Paris seemed to be more lugubriously colored by the formidable flashes of the revolt.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lugubriously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.