dirge

Example Sentences

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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

The tone is relentless, and the score of slow and craggy strings is a dirge.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

I heard Ira begin to sing a low dirge; she was rocking gently back and forth, and she was crying.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya