How to Use dirge in a Sentence

dirge

noun

• That song was not written as a torchy love song or a draggy dirge.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2018
• At first a dirge, then the tempo rises, and the hymnal swells.
  — Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
• In a dirge-like version, a young man plays the song solo on an acoustic guitar.
  — Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• This offers respite from the music ever feeling too dirge-like.
  — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 1 May 2026
• This is accompanied by the men of court singing a solemn dirge for seemingly hours on end.
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• The dirge-like tempo speeds up and hurtles to a close, a runaway train charging into the black.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• The drums of failure beat a sharp, staccato dirge in Siran's mind.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• That’s why some investors aren’t singing a funeral dirge for active stock picking – just yet.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• On the final night, one of the regulars hired a Scotsman in a kilt to play a bagpipe dirge.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
• Lest all this begin to sound too much like a dirge, it must be mentioned that Freeney is broadly smiling these days.
  — Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
• Standing at the edge, the three clergymen intoned a dirge, in a low, melodious chant.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• And that's how a six and a half minute folk dirge with no hook, no guitar solo, and 28 two-line stanzas became a hit.
  — NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
• Rather, this composition was a somber dirge, with each beat of the drums a profound proclamation of sorrow.
  — Peter G. Chronis, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Everyone burst out into one soul-slicing dirge of laughter that seeped into the next room, into Doug’s ears.
  — Stephanie Hayes, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
• Thanksgiving can be delightful or draining, a festive feast or a dispiriting dirge.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
• Over chilling, Carpenter-esque dirges, and in his unique ghostly rasp, Jeezy would go into drug-trade specifics.
  — Abe Beame, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2023
• The screenplay’s dirge-like momentum is ironic as Sarnoski has set out to make a movie itself about storytelling.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
• The already dirge-like film downshifts further, towards a more pleasant state of repose, as Robin convalesces.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
• Every now and then, though, a glistening sweep of harp would cut through the dirge, sounding the possibility of glory in the wreckage.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
• The organ that colored all the earlier tales of youthful exuberance now plays a funeral dirge.
  — David Glickman, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026
• In New Orleans terms, this was the point in the jazz funeral where the dirge ends and the uptempo music sets the deceased’s soul free.
  — cleveland, 5 Sep. 2022
• The ululation at the beginning gives way to the spoken word feel of the rapping and a dirge-like lamentation sequence, all against the steady beat of the parai drums.
  — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
• Snider spends much of his latest working in a blues dirge palette that feels like a trimmed down iteration of his Agnostic Hymns sound.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2021
• The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.
  — Brad Shoup, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2026
• Tamara Stewart played a mournful dirge on her bagpipe, an honor guard placed a wreath on a truck bearing a bent and rusty beam salvaged from the twin tower wreckage.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2021
• The piece begins as a slow dirge, then accelerates into a kind of battle charge — the episode climaxes in a call to war for the latent rebels in Ferrix.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• What sounds at first like an upbeat show tune soon transforms into a dirge for Black Americans who’ve been brutally killed across the South.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2020
• The Season 3 finale of the sci-fi series delivers on that promise, unfolding with the solemn rhythm of a funeral dirge.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
• Built to Spill plays cartwheeling, daydreaming tunes that float above it all, while Afghan Whigs specializes in darker dirges from down below.
  — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2018
• As the flames consume Beowulf’s corpse, a nameless woman sings a dirge about the humiliations and captivity to come.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020