| Her reading consisted of a staple diet of lurid romances and whodunits, and her thoughts tended towards the macabre. |
| It has a suitably macabre way of disposing of its victims, by detaching the head and ripping out the hypothalamus. |
| Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each. |
| It is the first business book that has made my flesh crawl, not because of some macabre metaphor, but because of the theory. |
| People rot in jail awaiting trial, making the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial a macabre joke. |
| Over one hundred people were reportedly killed in this macabre death of dance. |
