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

The tone is relentless, and the score of slow and craggy strings is a dirge.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

Lillian Woodward played the hymn like a dirge, and there is nothing like playing a march like a dirge to irritate a congregation.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt