a lugubrious expression
a lugubrious atmosphere
he put on a lugubrious look.
His lugubrious expression matched the somber mood of the funeral.
The lugubrious music added to the melancholy atmosphere of the film.
She delivered the news in a lugubrious tone, causing everyone to feel sad.
The lugubrious weather matched his gloomy mood perfectly.
The lugubrious painting evoked a sense of sorrow and despair.
His lugubrious sighs filled the room with a sense of sadness.
The lugubrious poem spoke of loss and heartbreak.
Her lugubrious demeanor made it clear she was not in a good mood.
The lugubrious melody haunted him long after the music had stopped.
The lugubrious news cast a shadow over the whole town.
" I am drinking, " replied the tippler, with a lugubrious air.
Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished.
That long, lugubrious howl rose on the night air again!
Perhaps, too, after what has happened, all previous events have taken on a lugubrious tint in my memory.
This incident, with variations, ran like a lugubrious fugue through the first year of marriage; always it left Anthony baffled, irritated, and depressed.
My old acquaintance, it was true, was the most eccentric of men; but the present eccentricity was both disquieting and lugubrious to consider.
Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o'clock, and these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper lawn for tea.
These feathered people had existed too long in their distinct variety; a fact of which the present representatives, judging by their lugubrious deportment, seemed to be aware.
She went on with her work, putting into it a sudden violence inspired by the recollection; but Alice, enlightened, gave utterance to a laugh of lugubrious derision.
I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.
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