Here they have a funereal tone.

Doctor Turner takes me aside to acquaint me in funereal tones with the details of a colleague's latest symptoms.

"I truly am sorry, sir," the man was saying in a funereal tone.

And so the guests Sunday spoke in funereal tones or turned their attention away from the foregone conclusion on the water.

The smell of cut flowers clung to my clothes, and my voice had locked into hushed funereal tones.

"I think we're too late," McCoy told her in a funereal tone.

"Oh yes," he said, in a funereal tone.

Indeed, much of the commentary took a funereal tone.

"Pickled quail eggs, my Lord," he would announce in a funereal tone.

Orange-red blood pooled around the flotation bed and the monitor began a steady, funereal tone.