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

But after he warns, “Don’t tell no lie about me/And I won’t tell truths about you,” the track changes to a tolling, droning trap dirge and Lamar’s delivery becomes biting, nasal and percussive.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

After sterile weeks he came to an unknown city where all the bells were tolling a dirge.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez