dirge|dirges in English

noun

[dɜːdʒ]

funeral song, mournful song; mournful sound

Use "dirge|dirges" in a sentence

1. A Dirge Over the Beloved City

2. The radio played dirges all day long.

3. That the Song of life is a dirge.

4. His songs are full of dirge.

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

6. Captain, make sure that the band plays a dirge.

7. She threw down her basket and intoned a peasant dirge.

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

9. Radiohead is singing a dirge to the record industry.

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

11. And take up a dirge* over the pastures of the wilderness,

12. A dirge over the sinking ship of Tyre (1-36)

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

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

15. The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.

16. Time passes like a dirge, white dye alone across the face of the ear.

17. Their song, or their dirge, remained unsung, or at any rate unheard.

18. Funk, jazz and reggae influence their sound, but the result never dips into a Western dirge.

19. Do you think, Cbunt, that this doleful and crude dirge of Elvis's might soon be changed?

20. But the old who seems to have in my ear, like a dirge soft, lingering.

21. It was to be a funeral dirge, a farewell song to a dead friendship.

22. There's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish.

23. Yet the memoirs of these survivors, their dirge, is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers' sentimental journeys.

24. Habakkuk’s prayer, or dirge, gives us strong reason to be joyful in Jehovah, the God of our salvation.

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