In a sentence
Three example sentences with dirge, each labelled with its topic.
The choir closed with a slow dirge for the village's oldest fisherman, one candle burning at the front of the church.
Music
Naval crews sang the same dirge over the rail for two centuries, and the melody appears in three ships' logbooks.
History
The poem is a dirge in everything but name, mourning a friend across nine stanzas that never raise their voice.
Literature
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- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency Words
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
- MajorTests SAT 1000
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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