lugubriously

How To Use lugubriously In A Sentence

• In the early hours of that day a knot of women, one of them beating a drum, others lugubriously chanting _du pain, du pain_, bread, bread, appeared in the streets of Paris. The French Revolution A Short History
• George III was a lugubriously unprogressive monarch roused by Fox's licentiousness; Pitt was the dreary juvenile hero of our new foreign secretary; neither would have expected to find the liberal and modern Adonis at their side. The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance
• For a while it became the archetypal maudlin pub drinking song: imagine it lugubriously belted out at closing time with a skinful of beer lubricating every voice.
• his long face lugubriously reflecting a hidden and unexpressed compassion
• At dawn, a fat ugly highveld cloud rolled across the ground, and for the rest of the day, it sat lugubriously overhead, sniffling away to itself.
• At last a man as fat as a tub and as sequacious as a child wobbled toward this woman, 'Four'; but, according to the feelings of the god, Nawin, that drenched the ground that they stood upon lugubriously, the two were not meant to stand together. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais