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 Irish band Lankum connects the fatalistic, death-haunted side of Celtic tradition to something like black metal in this nine-minute dirge about dying for love.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023
His voice enweaved itself through the somber vapors left by the dirge.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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