elegy

Example Sentences

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"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Released in 1976, less than a year after the ship’s sinking, his folk ballad became an instant hit, turning a regional disaster into an international elegy.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

The novel reads like a wintry elegy to the once proud cad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Bottum, the co-founder of the band Faith No More, offers up an elegy to a lost time and place: pre-tech bro San Francisco in the 1980s, when cultural ferment was in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

Rowan looked out at the grand elegy of scythes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman