Use "dirge" in a sentence
1. A Dirge Over the Beloved City
2. That the Song of life is a dirge.
3. His songs are full of dirge.
4. Captain, make sure that the band plays a dirge.
5. She threw down her basket and intoned a peasant dirge.
6. Radiohead is singing a dirge to the record industry.
7. And take up a dirge* over the pastures of the wilderness,
8. A dirge over the sinking ship of Tyre (1-36)
9. The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.
10. Time passes like a dirge, white dye alone across the face of the ear.
11. Their song, or their dirge, remained unsung, or at any rate unheard.
12. Funk, jazz and reggae influence their sound, but the result never dips into a Western dirge.
13. Do you think, Cbunt, that this doleful and crude dirge of Elvis's might soon be changed?
14. But the old who seems to have in my ear, like a dirge soft, lingering.
15. It was to be a funeral dirge, a farewell song to a dead friendship.
16. There's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish.
17. Yet the memoirs of these survivors, their dirge, is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers' sentimental journeys.
18. Habakkuk’s prayer, or dirge, gives us strong reason to be joyful in Jehovah, the God of our salvation.
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20. Listen to the dirge of the dry leaves, that were green and vigorous but a few moons before!
21. Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned. Edward Abbey
22. These dissonant days the best a player can hope for as an inspirational backdrop to his talent is an off-pitch dirge.
23. The prog-rock dirge of "I Remember California" bears gloomy witness to a world losing itself in a blur of accelerating change.
24. Amnesiac‘s interpretation is like a dirge, a funeral march wailing in the distance as the same sad voice lingers over its knotty nursery rhyming
25. (Hab 1:1; 3:1) From the book’s closing notation (“To the director on my stringed instruments”) and the dirge in chapter 3, it has been inferred that Habakkuk was a Levitical temple musician.
26. ‘In general, most Aggravations were short lived, averaging four days, and all had resolved by day 16.’ ‘These verses, which sounded as if they had been sung expressly for the dirge of my departed happiness, were only an aggravation of my feelings.’
27. Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems? Was he to company vastest things defunct With a blubber of tom-toms harrowing the sky? Scrawl a tragedian's testament? Prolong His active force in an inactive dirge, Which, let the tall musicians call and call, Should merely call him dead? Pronounce amen Through choirs infolded to the outmost clouds?
28. 1601, Thomas Dekker, Satiromastix: Why so, even thus the mercury of heaven Ushers th'Ambrosiate banquet of the gods, When a long train of angels in a rank Serve the first course, and bow their crystal knees Before the silver table; 1848, Susan Williamson, The Dirge; Or, A Voice in the Night: 'Tis very wild to look on through time in the