elegy

Example Sentences

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The version here, offered in elegy, is slow but not somber, gripping but also soft-edged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

“Bread of Angels” is also an elegy, not just for lost loved ones but for times, places and even physical things.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025

"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Released in 1976, less than a year after the ship’s sinking, his folk ballad became an instant hit, turning a regional disaster into an international elegy.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

Another time, in a misprint he hadn’t caught, Roberto’s article had stated that Senator Smathers had delivered an elegy, instead of a eulogy, of Trujillo before the joint members of the United States Congress.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez