How to Use "dirge" with Example Sentences

1. Nor was the film a melancholy dirge ; it was entertaining , even funny , always fascinating .

2. A generation later , as kids began to hunker down , mr. springsteen wrote his depressing , dead-end dirge , " the ghost of tom joad . "

3. While a brass band played a repetitive dirge the throng of strangers carrying paper bags of remains pushed and shoved their way onto the boat , jostling for prime position so they could be first to dump their loved one 's remains into the east china sea .