death song

Example Sentences

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She quotes the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, who survived Sand Creek but still sang a death song: “Nothing lives long, Only the earth and the mountains.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Then in succession it gives the dulcet imitation of an Indian death song, a menagerie on a stampede, and a country school at recess, and ends with a swan song that makes your hair rise.

From Slate • May 3, 2020

Buliard is struck by a death song that begins: Say, tell me now, was life so nice on earth?

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the lament sung at a funeral—a death song.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

The old Indian who had been mortally wounded faced death with a grim smile on his lips and sang his own death song.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America