DIRGE in a Sentence

Learn DIRGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for DIRGE, such as:
1. It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.
2. The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DIRGE
dirge
 n.  a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Classic Sentence:
1  It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Example Sentence:
1  The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.