dirge

Example Sentences

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It might be time to pause the funeral dirge for software and services stocks.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

The mystery, along with Lightfoot’s mournful and eminently meme-able dirge, created fertile soil for a cultural resurgence today—one driven largely by Gen Z and millennials who love mythologizing working-class tragedies and Midwestern nostalgia.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

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

Austin Reaves is the Lakers’ breath of fresh air, a sharpshooting respite from all the drama and dirge, a stirring journey from undrafted to indefatigable.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2025

The story droned on, speeded up for the attack, grew sad over the wounds, struck a dirge at the burials on the great plains.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck