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How to use dirges in a sentence

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Mini's songs were neither dirges nor fight songs but soulful chants with melodies of promise.
To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies.
He poured out his otherwise ignored feelings into music, making his flute wail with stormy rage, sigh soft dirges, or trill in happy abandon.
In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi.
The two duets with Vedder are the strongest of too many funereally morose dirges that bind the album.
There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs.
This album is full of self-pitying dirges which give the impression of a slightly sad man-child sulking about girls in his bedroom.
A brass band playing sombre dirges leads the mourners and the body tearfully through the streets, from church to cemetery.
Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, an event long remembered in Mesopotamian dirges and omen texts.
If you are one of the resort's pool of bankrupt songwriters but still have grave interests and tendencies, think about turning to writing dirges for funerals.
On the soundtrack, bouncy pop tunes alternate with electronic dirges.
The new songs show Pedro The Lion's move towards more darker material, showing off an ability to go from slow-core-ish dirges to frenzied beat-heavy rock numbers.
The 18 tracks include the infamous Vietnam War rant against the US military top brass, War Pigs, Children Of The Grave, and Killing Yourself To Live, among other dark dirges.
Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath.
Homesongs, the solo debut from ex-Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan, gives his lonely heart its own club band, but unfortunately, these dragging, faceless roots-tinged dirges fail.
The Dead C have been treading the same water since their inception in 1987 and their leaden, layered guitar-soaked dirges just feel tired up against the vibrancy of Konono.
He contends that the album is less depressing than its predecessor, with less dirges and different songwriting styles.
The most important of the ritual ceremonies for a dead person are those that take place during the transition period, which may last for six weeks and may include addressing the departed euphemistically and in dirges.
On a balmy night in the old souks of Manama, Bahrain's capital, muscular, black-clad youths chant dirges and chest-thump past shrines adorned with dramatic tableaux of Shia saints.
Examples from Classical Literature
A low wail of inappeasable sorrow, an undertone of dirges, mingles with his gay melodies.
Phantom ships are on the sea, the dead of twenty centuries come forth from the tombs, and in the dirges of the night wind the songs of old forgotten ages find utterance again.
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