Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monody
Noun
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Works of art have particular shapes (three-minute pop songs, three-act plays) and particular moods and tones (comic, tragic, romantic, elegiac).—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Immigration tales tend to adopt a hybrid form—part elegy for life in the home country, part hymn to the promise of the new.—
Tope Folarin,
The Atlantic,
8 Nov. 2025
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At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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At first a dirge, then the tempo rises, and the hymnal swells.—
Jenny Adams,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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Central Arizona cities have kept the taps flowing to residents without restrictions, even as a 30-year drought deepens on the Colorado River.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Highlights include a military parade, flyover by the Salute Formation Flying Team, military review by the Academy’s Corps of Cadets, wreath presentation and the playing of taps.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Monody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monody. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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