dirge

[US]/dɜːdʒ/
[UK]/dɝdʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a lament; a mournful song;a mournful melody

Example Sentences

the wind howled dirges around the chimney.

after his ten-minute dirge, the audience booed.

The radio played dirges all day long.

An endless dirge of saccharin, pseudo-classic bilge, it sucked the joy out of the incredible visuals and drove me towards a narcoleptic episode.

The mournful dirge echoed through the cemetery.

The funeral procession was accompanied by a somber dirge.

The dirge played at the memorial service brought tears to everyone's eyes.

The haunting dirge captured the melancholy mood of the film.

The villagers sang a dirge to mourn the passing of their beloved leader.

The dirge of the wind howled through the deserted streets.

The ancient dirge was passed down through generations as a symbol of remembrance.

The dirge of war could be heard in the distance, signaling the impending battle.

The haunting dirge of the ghostly figure sent shivers down my spine.

The dirge of lost dreams filled her heart with sorrow.

Real-world Examples

And the organ rolled on in to add the dirge.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) March 2016 Collection

It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.

Source: Returning Home

Thirty-two belfries tolled a dirge at six in the afternoon.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Teach you how to play a dirge on a bugle?

Source: First Arrival (Season 2)

That night I slept poorly, and between my fitful dreams, I thought I heard a distant moaning, like a funeral dirge.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

The Middle Ages built cathedrals and sang dirges.

Source: Employment, Interest, and General Theory of Money (Volume 1)

After sterile weeks he came to an unknown city where all the bells were tolling a dirge.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

If only, say they, the country had a few more of such staunch patriots, the mills of Manchester would have, had to sound their own dirge to the tune of Bande Mataram.

Source: Family and the World (Part 2)

No tomb shall e'er plead to remembrance for thee, Or redeem form or fame from the merciless surge; But the white foam of waves shall thy winding sheet be, And winds in the midnight of winter thy dirge.

Source: American Original Language Arts Volume 5

She fluttered away, chattering volubly to a bull-necked man with a heavy jaw and a coat glittering with orders; and her plaintive dirges for " notre malheureuse patrie, " interpolated with " charmant" and " mon prince, " died away along the terrace.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

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