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

“Un Mojado Sin Licencia,” which Jiménez originally recorded in 1964, is no dirge but rather a rollicking revolt against American xenophobia.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

Bernabe asked, his voice trudging down the fifteen miles of telephone wire like a funeral dirge.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols