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.
  • Many of these are of a morbid cast, relics in the saintly sense.
    — Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Talking about death doesn’t have to be scary, morbid or sad.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Claude takes the men to a Thai strip club as a morbid send-off.
    — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 26 May 2024
  • Here, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
    — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Neither the film nor the book are ever morbid.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Not to be morbid about it, but her father had lived to be ninety-nine.
    — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
  • The morbid scene was quite a shock for our trio of sleuths, and for audiences.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Skeletons are morbid and remind me of death.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2026
  • Scragg accepts that his livelihood and passion will be seen by many as morbid.
    — Oscar Schwartz, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The book’s morbid sense of humor will hit the Halloween sweet spot.
    — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The record often feels morbid and majestic at the same time.
    — Allaire Nuss, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And muerto nods to their culture, where death is not a morbid subject.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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 is morbid, but is the fact that Jack was cremated have to do with the fire?
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Being alone with these thoughts brings his narrative to some morbid places.
    — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But, not to be morbid or anything, but Glass will turn 82 this year.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 23 May 2017
  • Trump was somber during the news conference, even morbid at times.
    — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In medicine—by this morbid measure, at least—women and men are on an even playing field.
    — Christopher M. Worsham, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • For some, disposing of ashes is a morbid thought.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 8 Dec. 2025
  • But morbid mementos of the crime may still linger beneath the surface of the land.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
  • There’s even a puzzle with Nate’s picture on it, just to give it that extra morbid edge.
    — Vulture, 13 June 2023
  • There’s even a puzzle with Nate’s picture on it, just to give it that extra morbid edge.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The old is dying, the new cannot be born, and a great variety of morbid symptoms has appeared.
    — Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • One significant gap in the screenplay is any sense of where these morbid fantasies come from.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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