elegy

Example Sentences

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The version here, offered in elegy, is slow but not somber, gripping but also soft-edged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

"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

Graff’s elegy for America leads to a core question about moral accountability and complicity: When you look in the mirror each morning, who do you see?

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

Citra realized there was no good day to be presented to an intimidating elegy of scythes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman