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 score sustains single notes like a dirge as Leigh judiciously chooses which noises he’ll let barge into Pansy’s sterile life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

I dropped my eyes to the floor and heard the slow music of the dirge, louder for a moment, then soft again.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang