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Sentence Examples Although not what the musicians intended, the dirge provided a wholly apposite soundtrack for a truly lamentable second half performance. He used to recite dirge songs and had established a unique status for his touching elegiac tone. The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery. The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero. They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer. Of course, anything other than a funeral dirge might be a little too upbeat for the game. Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline. I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge. And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any. Flipper had a Vietnam veteran guitarist and played tragically funny dirge music, hardcore punk on Quaaludes. 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. Played at a quickstep tempo, the dirge was at once transformed into a jaunty, comic, oompah version of the Scottish anthem. As for new songs, there's a Latvian lullaby, a Czech dirge and a Bulgarian ballad. For seven minutes the quartet play a tuneless dirge that occasionally changes and is entwined with a slowly oscillating synthesizer. Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge. So goes a verse in a whisky-soaked dirge of Georgia Institute of Technology. The winds howled their dirge about the rough-hewn stone dwellings huddled under the grim fortress of the Sorcerers who kept watch over the once-great plains of Kal Maros. The design team sent out a dirge of mostly camel-colored leggings, leather shorts, tunics, and jackets. Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel. The sound was awful, each song was a tuneless, discordant dirge. Show More Sentences There was hopped-up, synthesizer-topped garage-rock and a slowly building, waltzing dirge. It's not impossible for them to start off with a barrelhouse boogie and, by the end, be dragging through a New Orleans funeral dirge with a singing saw leading the charge. Looking to the future, we hear a music swelling from innumerable voices, music which is not a dirge but a song of life abounding and triumphant. They often manage their triumphalism and their dirge in the same paragraph. Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion. The 19th century, though, was a 100-year dirge from one horrid epidemic to another. Legs akimbo, they sing a funeral dirge to the Shia martyr Hussain. And Mr McCain is no great communicator. With a month to go, Americans may hear a dirge of glum economic news nearly every day between now and the election. It is a dirge of a book that left me wishing an Angel would come and suck away my lifeforce just so I wouldn't have to read any more. The clubby Stars Above Us finally got some life into the crowd but this quickly fell away with the dirge Last Orders For Gary Stead. Young Lucius plucked a mournful dirge on the kithara and soon Drusus broke out his aulos. As 24-year-old Monica Michael sang a dreary dirge about how much she loves her sister, the mimer formerly known as Cole decided to turn on her trademark waterworks. Examples from Classical Literature The most primitive was called epikedeion, a dirge or coronach, improvised by women over the bodies of the dead. About their deaths she only tells us through the dirge by Moschus, that Bion was poisoned. The entrance to the room where the Bella figlia had been succeeded by a dirge, was blocked. Much of the time he was chanting a kind of low dirge in the Delaware tongue, using the deep and remarkable guttural tones of his people. It was their dirge over their buried affections and over the vanity of earthly desires. She did not answer, but went on, in a tone which was a soliloquy rather than an exclamation, and a dirge rather than a soliloquy. It was a dirge, which he was intoning as he bent over the cookstove. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge. But it was only the cold wind from the mountains whistling a dirge. So the dirge of the frog is the cry of the spirit of river and marshland. It was now, too, that Spenser wrote Astrophel, a sadly beautiful dirge for the death of his friend and fellow-poet, Sir Philip Sidney. They have a strange preference for the minor key in music, for the dirge. A substandard British take on America's Judge Judy, this 60-minute dirge was guilty of torturing us with banal nonsense. But my dread of that dirge kept me from accepting these invitations. It was as though all his castles in the air had come toppling about his ears, the blue sky had turned to stony grey and the sweet waltz music had become a dirge. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of dirge? Words that rhyme with dirge What is the plural of dirge? What is the adjective for dirge? What is the noun for dirge? Translations for dirge Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words dire straits direst direr direness diremption direly dirgelike dirges dirham dirhams Dirichlet dirigible 5-letter Words Starting With d di dir dirg