elegy

Example Sentences

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Yet it plays like an elegy, a film about endings, mortality and what we leave behind.

From New York Times

He recited a shepherd’s elegy: He started with 45 sheep; 30 remain.

From New York Times

An a cappella elegy about letting go, the song stemmed partly from Davis’s lament that all his old friends had already gone.

From New York Times

“Salesman” is an elegy to false hopes, a requiem for a breadwinner.

From Washington Post

Even as the shattering events depicted here ring familiar, especially to Jews, who have the intimations of annihilation soldered onto their souls, Stoppard’s words contribute another poetic verse to a long and tragic elegy.

From Washington Post