How to Use requiem in a Sentence
requiem
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There would be no requiem for the weekend’s four losses at the hands of the Dodgers.
—Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
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Well, this is a requiem for the man as well as his market.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
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Sox still have some say in the requiem for this season.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
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The book is something of a requiem and a rhapsody combined.
—Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
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At its best, this opera comes across as an anguished requiem.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
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Go ahead and sing that requiem for a dying league, but don’t be so mournful about it.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
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There are stormy requiems, like Mozart’s and Verdi’s, that raise the dead with thunder and earthquakes.
—Patrick Neas, kansascity, 11 May 2018
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A perfect day for a sailor’s requiem just outside the Golden Gate at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
—Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2020
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This is a stirring requiem for the dead, shot through with defiant life.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
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Some movement exists — sing a requiem for the Sooners this year — but in large measure the games don’t even have to be played.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
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In the next act, a flutist-cat works with percussionists to perform a requiem.
—New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
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The center opened in 1971 with a requiem Mass in Kennedy’s honor, composed by Leonard Bernstein.
—Ben Nuckols, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
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From my point of view, this work is nothing more than the quintessence of the world’s grief, the composer’s requiem for himself.
—Leilah Bernstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 June 2017
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The scene feels like a requiem, or an offering — a paying of respects to the departed.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
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This Milan is not a reprise of the glory days when Serie A towered over the world, but something closer to a requiem for them.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2023
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The requiem for the legendary Glen Park school came eight years after its doors closed in the wake of declining enrollment.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
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Some countries had argued that including all species of requiem sharks was an abuse of the listing process.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
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Did Salieri really commission Mozart to write a requiem for his father to send him to his grave?
—Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
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The English-language text of the requiem also will be projected onto the façade of the opera house during the performance.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
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The listings approved last week are dominated by requiem sharks, which make up most of the global fin trade.
—Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 21 Nov. 2022
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Is this a requiem for the American family, or a hymn to its battered resilience?
—Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
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Those were the keys in keeping anyone, everyone, from singing a sorry requiem for BYU football.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
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Hailstork and Martin have created a requiem that feels alive and has only just taken its first breaths.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
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Throughout its eight minutes, the track provides about as much sadness and beauty as a listener can handle—and, yes, a fitting requiem to the storm.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2015
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Zhao’s film is a requiem for Fern’s former way of life and a celebration of the new existence she’s found, living in her van and moving from job to job as the seasons change.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
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The half-hour-long Requiem opens at the lowest depths — as lightless as the bottom of the ocean — and features dense choral clusters that seem to emanate from an extraterrestrial source.
—Thomas May, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
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Displayed side-by-side, the monumental acrylic and oilstick on paper mounted on canvas works can be read (or heard) as Basquiat’s requiem.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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In some ways that makes this second Souvenir both a postscript and a requiem, a living ghost story haunted by bereavement and regret.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
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The poignant song served as a kind of requiem reflecting the themes of death and loss sincerely depicted in the drama, and captured the hearts of viewers even before the song actually went on sale.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 15 June 2018
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The score was intended as a requiem to the daughter of Mahler's widow, Alma, and her second husband, architect Walter Gropius.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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