How to Use morbid in a Sentence

morbid

adjective

• The child has a morbid fear of snakes.
• He has a morbid sense of humor.
• She has a morbid interest in funerals.
• Claude takes the men to a Thai strip club as a morbid send-off.
  — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 26 May 2024
• Many of these are of a morbid cast, relics in the saintly sense.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The Addamses are dressed in dark, morbid black, and the Beinekes are in bright yellows and whites.
  — Rebecca Bogdanovic, Orange County Register, 3 May 2017
• For most of us, the idea of a funeral is rather morbid.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2018
• Here, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
  — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
• This is morbid, but is the fact that Jack was cremated have to do with the fire?
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2017
• The book’s morbid sense of humor will hit the Halloween sweet spot.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Since that’s not in the equation, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
  — Rick Bentley, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
• But, not to be morbid or anything, but Glass will turn 82 this year.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 23 May 2017
• But morbid mementos of the crime may still linger beneath the surface of the land.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
• Not to be morbid about it, but her father had lived to be ninety-nine.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
• Then, pick your poison (or, poisson in French for the less morbid), and hit Start Order.
  — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 20 Oct. 2017
• As for the building’s morbid past, Cohn and Renner are unfazed.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024
• There’s even a puzzle with Nate’s picture on it, just to give it that extra morbid edge.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• This explains a lot about his thing with morbid romance.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• My desire to do this movie was to understand why those two girls went down this morbid path.
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
• This may all sound morbid, but calling My Friend Dahmer a thriller or horror film feels like a stretch.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2017
• Scragg accepts that his livelihood and passion will be seen by many as morbid.
  — Oscar Schwartz, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2019
• Preparing for the end of life needn't be morbid, as five minutes spent with Fremont will prove.
  — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Trump was somber during the news conference, even morbid at times.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• One staffer seemed to shrug off the issue as part of the morbid reality of surgical work.
  — Alex Horton, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• The trip to Spain, for instance, includes a morbid pilgrimage to the spot where Gina’s parents died.
  — Michael O’Sullivan, idahostatesman, 26 Oct. 2017
• Then, cleansing renovations remove the stains of the past and take these homes from morbid to marvelous.
  — Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2019
• Violence: This is about a mysterious death, so there is some morbid content with the shots of the dead body.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Last week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars ended on a major cliffhanger — and a morbid one at that.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 6 July 2016
• Thus, Free Solo is thrilling for its footage and what its subject tries to accomplish, but a sense of existential ambivalence comes with that morbid thrill.
  — Eric Farwell and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2024
• They will be flagged down by badge-holders concealing morbid curiosities.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024