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Six example sentences with macabre, each labelled with its topic.
The animation has a macabre charm, with dancing skeletons in top hats leading a candlelit parade.
Movies
Poe built a whole career on macabre detail, a ticking floorboard, a raven, a house that will not stay upright.
Literature
Medieval painters loved the macabre, filling chapel walls with skulls and hourglasses to remind worshippers of time.
Art
Saint-Saens wrote a macabre waltz in which a fiddle summons skeletons to dance until the rooster crows at dawn.
Music
The final boss has a macabre design, a crown of bones over a face that never stops grinning.
Gaming
The catacombs beneath the city are a macabre attraction, with walls of skulls stacked neatly along the tunnels.
Travel
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