How to Use elegy in a Sentence

elegy

noun
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  • This tribute to the living was also an elegy, a lament for the dead.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • But that is rarely what elegies, or poets, aim to provide.
    — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018
  • But for the most part, Chris the Swiss is a fascinating, moving elegy for doomed youth.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2018
  • The album—with ten tracks sung by Reed, five by Cale—is their joint eulogy and elegy.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The album serves as an elegy, mixtape and soundtrack, all in one.
    — Oliver Wang, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The Invite is a humor and light-verse contest, and so the Empress is not looking for flowery elegies.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Write the necessary elegies, the songs of temporary fury.
    — Susan Barba, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The result is a novel that reclaims and refashions the genre of the elegy, charging it with as much eros as pathos.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But in the end, Proulx’s book is an elegy, an ode to what future generations will not know.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps most notably, both feel like elegies for a past in which those men were very comfortable.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Today, the commissioner's words serve as an elegy for a paradise that was lost again for the 69th straight time.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • A few miles farther, in Hartlepool, the horizon was an elegy of lost purpose.
    — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The Irishman feels like an apotheosis, an elegy, and a penance all at once.
    — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • When Mungo the squirrel died — killed by a dog — Franklin composed a loving elegy.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The other is the first major elegy written for the beloved poet C.D. Wright, who died suddenly in 2016.
    — Craig Morgan Teicher, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Those works, by artists like Corot and Millet were elegy, not celebration — a somber look at a way of life fading away.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • The book is an elegy for the author’s grandfather Midori.
    — Brandon Shimoda, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • These short essays are like ekphrastic poems, or odes, or elegies, or fan letters.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Freaknik is an ode to a unique city, and an elegy for one of the greatest music festivals that ever existed.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Puccini claimed to have written the six-minute elegy in one night; motifs from the melancholic work appear in his later opera Manon Lescaut.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
  • The dark drama that unfolds is an elegy to that vanished vanishing world.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Cabral wrote this lovely elegy for his late mentor shortly after Gold’s death last year.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
  • Perhaps their elegies for vanished homes in China required distance to write.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • For a band whose polyrhythms and headiness really do require musicians to have and use math skills, Fripp’s elegy comes close enough to feeling like love.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
  • At one point, Kronos turns the descending scales of the lullaby into a lovely, soft elegy.
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Vaulting back and forth in time, Ziegler's memory play is both elegy and cautionary tale, imbued with poignant loss and keen regret.
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • From there, the song plays like an elegy for a persona that no longer fits, Rodrigo singing with a quaver over a steady but reluctant acoustic guitar.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • Alaska news is full of climate elegies now—every one linked to wrenching changes caused by burning fossil fuels.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • Alaska news is full of climate elegies now — every one linked to wrenching changes caused by burning fossil fuels.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023

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