How to Use elegy in a Sentence

elegy

noun

• This tribute to the living was also an elegy, a lament for the dead.
  — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020
• But that is rarely what elegies, or poets, aim to provide.
  — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018
• But for the most part, Chris the Swiss is a fascinating, moving elegy for doomed youth.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2018
• The album—with ten tracks sung by Reed, five by Cale—is their joint eulogy and elegy.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• The album serves as an elegy, mixtape and soundtrack, all in one.
  — Oliver Wang, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The Invite is a humor and light-verse contest, and so the Empress is not looking for flowery elegies.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
• Write the necessary elegies, the songs of temporary fury.
  — Susan Barba, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2020
• What a gift to read her intimate elegy to her best friend, who died by suicide.
  — The Week Us, theweek, 16 Apr. 2024
• The result is a novel that reclaims and refashions the genre of the elegy, charging it with as much eros as pathos.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• But in the end, Proulx’s book is an elegy, an ode to what future generations will not know.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps most notably, both feel like elegies for a past in which those men were very comfortable.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• Today, the commissioner's words serve as an elegy for a paradise that was lost again for the 69th straight time.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• A few miles farther, in Hartlepool, the horizon was an elegy of lost purpose.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Irishman feels like an apotheosis, an elegy, and a penance all at once.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• When Mungo the squirrel died — killed by a dog — Franklin composed a loving elegy.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• The other is the first major elegy written for the beloved poet C.D. Wright, who died suddenly in 2016.
  — Craig Morgan Teicher, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Those works, by artists like Corot and Millet were elegy, not celebration — a somber look at a way of life fading away.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• The book is an elegy for the author’s grandfather Midori.
  — Brandon Shimoda, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• These short essays are like ekphrastic poems, or odes, or elegies, or fan letters.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• Freaknik is an ode to a unique city, and an elegy for one of the greatest music festivals that ever existed.
  — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2019
• Puccini claimed to have written the six-minute elegy in one night; motifs from the melancholic work appear in his later opera Manon Lescaut.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
• The dark drama that unfolds is an elegy to that vanished vanishing world.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Notes of elegy sound throughout, laments for something too good to last, but also for a moment of honest and urgent revolt.
  — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Cabral wrote this lovely elegy for his late mentor shortly after Gold’s death last year.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
• Perhaps their elegies for vanished homes in China required distance to write.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• For a band whose polyrhythms and headiness really do require musicians to have and use math skills, Fripp’s elegy comes close enough to feeling like love.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
• At one point, Kronos turns the descending scales of the lullaby into a lovely, soft elegy.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Vaulting back and forth in time, Ziegler's memory play is both elegy and cautionary tale, imbued with poignant loss and keen regret.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• It was meant less as an elegy than as a reminder of diplomacy’s significance.
  — William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024