How to Use dirge in a Sentence

dirge

noun

• That song was not written as a torchy love song or a draggy dirge.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2018
• In lesser hands, this would have been a death metal dirge.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• The dirge-like tempo speeds up and hurtles to a close, a runaway train charging into the black.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• In a dirge-like version, a young man plays the song solo on an acoustic guitar.
  — Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• This dirge for the dead is also an affirmation of life.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• The list goes on and on like an unending funeral dirge.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 31 July 2017
• In New Orleans terms, this was the point in the jazz funeral where the dirge ends and the uptempo music sets the deceased’s soul free.
  — cleveland, 5 Sep. 2022
• This is accompanied by the men of court singing a solemn dirge for seemingly hours on end.
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• Lest all this begin to sound too much like a dirge, it must be mentioned that Freeney is broadly smiling these days.
  — Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
• Standing at the edge, the three clergymen intoned a dirge, in a low, melodious chant.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• The ululation at the beginning gives way to the spoken word feel of the rapping and a dirge-like lamentation sequence, all against the steady beat of the parai drums.
  — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
• Rather, this composition was a somber dirge, with each beat of the drums a profound proclamation of sorrow.
  — Peter G. Chronis, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• That’s why some investors aren’t singing a funeral dirge for active stock picking – just yet.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• The officer in the front seat synced his mobile phone to the police radio and sang along, karaoke style, to a popular rock dirge by Da Zhuang, with lyrics rolling up his screen.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Surely Queen Bey is to thank on some level for the Now deluxe edition’s two piano dirges being shaved off the 41-minute album proper.
  — Dan Weiss, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2017
• Then a solo bassoon silences the warmth: A funeral dirge is passing through.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• The piece begins as a slow dirge, then accelerates into a kind of battle charge — the episode climaxes in a call to war for the latent rebels in Ferrix.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Every now and then, though, a glistening sweep of harp would cut through the dirge, sounding the possibility of glory in the wreckage.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
• Over chilling, Carpenter-esque dirges, and in his unique ghostly rasp, Jeezy would go into drug-trade specifics.
  — Abe Beame, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2023
• What sounds at first like an upbeat show tune soon transforms into a dirge for Black Americans who’ve been brutally killed across the South.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2020
• Everyone burst out into one soul-slicing dirge of laughter that seeped into the next room, into Doug’s ears.
  — Stephanie Hayes, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
• However, the funeral dirge turned out to be a little premature, as the SUV survived the night on the beach without getting carried away by the ocean.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 6 Sep. 2019
• Snider spends much of his latest working in a blues dirge palette that feels like a trimmed down iteration of his Agnostic Hymns sound.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2021
• Built to Spill plays cartwheeling, daydreaming tunes that float above it all, while Afghan Whigs specializes in darker dirges from down below.
  — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2018
• Tamara Stewart played a mournful dirge on her bagpipe, an honor guard placed a wreath on a truck bearing a bent and rusty beam salvaged from the twin tower wreckage.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2021
• And then, in what seems to be one breath, the song shifts seamlessly to a slow, dirge-like crawl, and we are transported to a convention where Kendrick details the dangers of gun violence to a group of children.
  — Irvin Weathersby, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2017
• Cloud cover kept the temperature mild as pallbearers carried Robinson's casket to the waiting hearse and the Kinfolk Brass Band played a dirge.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• There’s a kernel of truth there: Being cruel isn’t my MO, but negative reviews need a little spice here and there to avoid sounding like a funeral dirge.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• Recorded over a prison phone line, the national anthem sounds more like a dirge than celebration and is overlaid with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• His funeral drew one of the largest crowds of mourners ever seen in Philadelphia, and his band played a dirge that Johnson had composed 12 years earlier.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024