dirge
Example Sentences
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Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Instead, they foundered in the breeze, squeezing out whatever bitter juice was left in a dirge that would prove to drag on for at least another week.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
It might be time to pause the funeral dirge for software and services stocks.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
But this isn’t a dirge — it’s a fight song and a taunt, and it sets the tone of comfortable, mischievous defiance that threads through the entire album.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025
From somewhere in the distance came a mournful sound of brass instruments, a death dirge echoing over the water.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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