On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Elegy. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as lament or poem and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Elegy in a sentence
Elegy meaning
- A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
- A composition of mournful character.
- A classical poem written in elegiac meter
Using Elegy
- The main meaning on this page is: A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. | A composition of mournful character. | A classical poem written in elegiac meter
- Useful related words include: lament, poem, verse form.
- In the example corpus, elegy often appears in combinations such as: an elegy, elegy for, hillbilly elegy.
Context around Elegy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Elegy
- In this selection, "elegy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hillbilly, protest, part, protest, perhaps and part stand out and add context to how "elegy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include american elegy the poetry and an elegy may also. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "elegy" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with elegy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The purpose of an elegy is to mourn the dead. (10 words)
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. (11 words)
He wrote an elegy for Tufail called Noha, which is also quite searing. (13 words)
So it’s natural that Alka’s song is both a paean and an elegy, in equal measures a doff of their red Communist Party of India (Marxist) caps to one another’s hardiness and a sombre acceptance of their continuing struggle. (42 words)
From the exquisite vocal refrain that Kouyate’s lines wend around on the opener, “Kanougnon,” through the closing seven-minute elegy to his mother, Ngoni Ba’s inexhaustible font of melody offers a cheery riposte to the age of austerity. (40 words)
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” said he will put all Department of Justice nominees on hold because of his objection to the federal prosecution of former President Donald Trump. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Reading over poems by myself and others, I realise that “lost lives” have always been at the centre of what we write: that the dominant genre of Troubles poetry is elegy – protest elegy, perhaps.
The purpose of an elegy is to mourn the dead.
Among the topics touched on in “Hillbilly Elegy” are drug addiction, government assistance and masculinity.
A Yale Law School graduate and venture capitalist, Vance, 39, rose to fame as author of Hillbilly Elegy in 2016, a memoir about his family’s experience of rural poverty in Appalachia.
Now that President Joe Biden’s administration is about to expire, an elegy is in order for its economic achievements, failures and missed opportunities.
On the pages of “Elegy the 42 images create a haunting catalog of the American landscape.
Part celebration, part elegy, part clarion call for action, fizzes with a fierce and jubilant love of mother ocean.
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” said he will put all Department of Justice nominees on hold because of his objection to the federal prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
That survey suggested the Trump campaign has work to do selling him to voters, with 28% reporting a favorable view of the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and 31% saying they had a negative view.
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture.
A quite beautiful, heartfelt elegy for John Lennon, taking the form of an imagined conversation between the two ex-Beatles.
From the exquisite vocal refrain that Kouyate’s lines wend around on the opener, “Kanougnon,” through the closing seven-minute elegy to his mother, Ngoni Ba’s inexhaustible font of melody offers a cheery riposte to the age of austerity.
He wrote an elegy for Tufail called Noha, which is also quite searing.
This reminds me of a beautiful line in Milton’s ‘Lycidas,’ an elegy he wrote when a young friend drowned in the Irish Sea: the sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
In a group of life-sized figures entitled “Dark Elegy,” Suse depicted the bare emotion women felt the moment they learned of the deaths of people they loved.
One of those is Steve Case, former CEO of AOL, who teamed up with JD Vance (author of Hillbilly Elegy) to launch a $150 million seed fund as part of his “Rise of the Rest” campaign.
So it’s natural that Alka’s song is both a paean and an elegy, in equal measures a doff of their red Communist Party of India (Marxist) caps to one another’s hardiness and a sombre acceptance of their continuing struggle.
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman.
An elegy may also reflect something that seems to the author to be strange or mysterious.
An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894, edition of the New York Independent) for $15 ($ Error when using Inflation : main must be specified.
Common combinations with elegy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an elegy 10×
- elegy for 6×
- hillbilly elegy 5×
- elegy in 4×
- elegy to 4×
- of elegy 3×
- elegy is 2×
- elegy the 2×
- heartfelt elegy 2×
- his elegy 2×