dirge

With Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” as a piano dirge.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

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

Orthodox Christian priests led a vigil in Brovary on Thursday, chanting dirges and burning incense as residents placed flowers and cuddly toys at a makeshift memorial near the nursery.

From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2023

Now again they are choosing A fall filled with funeral dirges.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021

Latasha’s story went on to inspire films and novels and furious dirges by Tupac and Ice Cube, and has filled countless newspaper columns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2021

And when you experienced Jason Molina’s languid lyricism, you might’ve felt deep kinship through his beautifully somber dirges — but you were too busy crying to think, “I should write songs like this!”

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2019

At first she played “Yori Yori” and “Obi Mu O” endlessly and then she stopped, because the songs brought to her memories a finality, as though they were dirges.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie