death song

Example Sentences

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She quotes the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, who survived Sand Creek but still sang a death song: “Nothing lives long, Only the earth and the mountains.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Then in succession it gives the dulcet imitation of an Indian death song, a menagerie on a stampede, and a country school at recess, and ends with a swan song that makes your hair rise.

From Slate • May 3, 2020

Buliard is struck by a death song that begins: Say, tell me now, was life so nice on earth?

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the lament sung at a funeral—a death song.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

The solemn, dirgelike chant was taken up by the entire company, and Spotted Deer believed that the Shawnees were singing the death song.

From Spotted Deer by Gregor, Elmer