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Six example sentences with lugubrious, each labelled with its topic.
The cello opened with a lugubrious line, low and slow, like rain on an empty station platform.
Music
Even the dog looked lugubrious in that film, drooping ears and downcast eyes in every single rainy scene.
Movies
His late portraits are relentlessly lugubrious: gray skies, mourning clothes, and sitters who never once meet the viewer's gaze.
Art
The narrator is so lugubrious that even a description of breakfast reads like a funeral notice.
Literature
The locker room was lugubrious after the overtime loss, twelve players staring at the floor and nobody touching the pizza.
Basketball
The chief executive's lugubrious tone on the earnings call told analysts more than the numbers did, and the shares fell.
Business
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