dirges in English

noun
1
a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite.
What is ‘Danny Boy,’ after all, but a funeral dirge ?

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1. The radio played dirges all day long.

2. The scroll was full of “dirges and moaning and wailing.”

3. Chapters 1-4 are dirges in Hebrew alphabetic, or acrostic, form.

4. Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;

5. According to Hab 3 verse 1, it is expressed in dirges, songs of grief or lamentation.

6. The first four are laments, or dirges; the fifth is a petition, or prayer.

7. Seattle band Adzes craft sludgy dirges with elements of noise rock, post-metal and shoegaze, united by a staunch moral compass

8. Those damn dirges are still running around my brain, like a tone-deaf rat with a megaphone is trapped inside my head.

9. Porter, Oh, Money! Money! Now, I like a good tune what is a tune; but them Caterwaulings and dirges that that chap Gray plays on that fiddle of his—gorry, Mr

10. I Won't Last Forever Tape version with digital download available at tridroid.bandcamp.com "The ones who got us in this mess will never get us out."; Seattle's Adzes crafts dirges of atmospheric sludge with