dead march
Example Sentences
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For three and a half hours no character walks faster than a dead march or speaks faster than five words a minute.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he was draped with black crepe and, while the crowd stood silent and a band began a dead march, the gelding walked slowly around the full circuit of the track.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a dead march nothing like it had ever been attempted before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each man held his gun up-side down, as a sign that the dead would war no more, and the drums beat the dead march.
From The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable by Pollard, Josephine
They tuned up their bass viols and played their dead march.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip
