Dirge in a sentence as a noun

Growing up in the SCA, the birthday dirge is my standard.

And at the same time info hoarding for the sake of it is pretty awful too. How do you wade through the vast amount of dirge that is out there in the sea of bits?

The whole casting and TV selling and drug buying scene was framed by this music, and it felt very dirge-like.

We don't seem to compose a dirge for every tree that gets trimmed around a utility pole either.

If you believed this argument, you'd expect to see a dirge of new businesses & a desert of new ideas.

An elegy is a poem for a sad occasion/death, similar to requiem, dirge or threnody

The linked page has a video on showing off the new features with the worst choice of music I think I've ever come across - it's like a dirge.

Never heard of elegy before, but according to the dictionary it's synonyms are dirge and lament.

They both have the technical chops and education of Collier but their music is interesting, satisfying, and fun instead of being an intolerable mind numbing dirge.

I just read this stern but lovely dirge in a novel last night.."Do you wrestle with dreams?\nDo you contend with shadows?\nDo you move in a kind of sleep?\nTime has slipped away.\nYour life is stolen.\nYou tarried with trifles,\nvictim of your folly.

It's going to be far easier to measure the performance of a soldier than a creative person, the latter isn't even a clearly defined category, lots of people consider themselves to be creative but generate unpopular dirge.

However, occasions “in the moment” get perceived according to the rules applicable for that moment:- boring things: usually a slow dirge or filled with brief distractions- novel things: either no sense of time passing, or a feeling of time going anywhere from slowly to “endless”- mundane things: time passes “at a familiar rate”, but I remember fee details later

Dirge definitions

noun

a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

See also: coronach lament requiem threnody