dirge

How To Use dirge In A Sentence

• There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs.
• The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
• The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero.
• They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer.
• I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
• A "dirge" is a funeral or mourning song, so perhaps this is meant literally ... or, perhaps, this is a reference to some of the new American Pie - Program Notes
• There are celebratory songs, such as in the wedding masques in As You Like It and The Tempest, and there are the more solemn dirges and laments of Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing.
• He poured out his otherwise ignored feelings into music, making his flute wail with stormy rage, sigh soft dirges, or trill in happy abandon.
• Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
• The new album incorporates vocal laments from Eastern Europe and a dirge-like hymn from a Croatian church congregation.