dirge

Example Sentences

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It might be time to pause the funeral dirge for software and services stocks.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

The mystery, along with Lightfoot’s mournful and eminently meme-able dirge, created fertile soil for a cultural resurgence today—one driven largely by Gen Z and millennials who love mythologizing working-class tragedies and Midwestern nostalgia.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

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

A psychedelic dirge but also a love song, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” captured a 1960s spirit of yin-yang duality — much like the band’s name itself.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

There was no dirge, no incense, no requiem, although hymns were sung in the small church.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady