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
  • Kamen, on the other hand, set out on her path after making an early epiphany about the joys of storytelling, albeit under slightly morbid circumstances.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Ask Insensitive Questions This is one time to keep your morbid curiosity to yourself.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024

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