On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Requiem. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as dirge or lament and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Requiem meaning
- A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
- A musical composition for such a mass.
- A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
Using Requiem
- The main meaning on this page is: A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person. | A musical composition for such a mass. | A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
- Useful related words include: dirge, coronach, lament, threnody.
- In the example corpus, requiem often appears in combinations such as: requiem mass, the requiem, for requiem.
Context around Requiem
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Requiem
- In this selection, "requiem" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, greatest, special, private, mass, service and evil stand out and add context to how "requiem" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a memorial requiem mass to and a private requiem mass and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "requiem" sits close to words such as adversarial, archibald and ashraf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with requiem
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Requiem Mass will get underway in St Peter’s Square at 9.30am CET. (15 words)
Sony unveils January PlayStation Plus games: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Evil West, and Nobody Saves the World. (17 words)
Benedict will lie in the famous basilica, open to the public, until his requiem mass on Thursday, 5 December. (19 words)
Mozart 's choral works, though not as numerous as his works for other media, stand out as some of his greatest (such as the "Great" Mass in C minor and Requiem in D minor, the latter of which is often considered the greatest Requiem Mass of all time). (48 words)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said plans were underway to hold a service at the Vatican and to bring Pell's body back to Australia, where it is expected to be buried in Sydney after the requiem Mass in Rome. (40 words)
In a demonstration of the strength of feeling for Fr Mullan, people lined the streets of Drumquin as he remains were brought to the parochial house on Saturday ahead of a private Requiem Mass and burial on Omagh today, Tuesday. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Mozart 's choral works, though not as numerous as his works for other media, stand out as some of his greatest (such as the "Great" Mass in C minor and Requiem in D minor, the latter of which is often considered the greatest Requiem Mass of all time).
A note on the Irish delegation at the funeral recorded that the heat in the Cathedral of Monaco was “extreme”, while the departure of the foreign dignitaries after the requiem service was “poorly organised".
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said plans were underway to hold a service at the Vatican and to bring Pell's body back to Australia, where it is expected to be buried in Sydney after the requiem Mass in Rome.
Benedict will lie in the famous basilica, open to the public, until his requiem mass on Thursday, 5 December.
Bishop Paul Hendricks will preside over the Requiem Mass the next day at 12 noon, October 17, followed by an internment at Minster Cemetery, Minster, Ramsgate.
Catholics in the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn came together last night to give thanks for the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at a special Requiem Mass.
Following her Requiem Mass at St Joseph’s Church, Cradien, Garvary on Saturday morning, she was interred in Edenmore Cemetery, Tempo.
His Requiem Mass will be held at 12pm in St Colman’s Church, Clara with burial in the adjoining cemetery.
In a demonstration of the strength of feeling for Fr Mullan, people lined the streets of Drumquin as he remains were brought to the parochial house on Saturday ahead of a private Requiem Mass and burial on Omagh today, Tuesday.
It also represents a nod to the first part of the original title, “Requiem,” but shows the opposite, not mourning the dead but celebrating the living.
Removal by Glennons Funeral Directors on Saturday morning to arrive at the Church of the Assumption and St. Patrick, Rathangan for requiem mass at 11am.
Removal by Glennon’s funeral Directors on Thursday morning to arrive at St. Brigid’s Church, The Curragh, for Requiem Mass at 11 o’clock.
Sony unveils January PlayStation Plus games: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Evil West, and Nobody Saves the World.
The Brooklyn Diocese hosted a memorial Requiem Mass to commemorate the life and service of the late former Pope Benedict XVI at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn.
The choral society will present Fauré’s much-loved Requiem alongside Mozart’s Solemn Vespers on Saturday, May 13, at St Mary's Church.
The Requiem Mass will get underway in St Peter’s Square at 9.30am CET.
They have released three albums, titled The Dethalbum, Dethalbum II, Dethalbum III is due out this year (Small also released a solo album that was meant to be a The Doomstar Requiem).
Two weeks ago I stood in this very ambo, with the agonising privilege of presiding at the Requiem Mass of a 37-year-old mother, whose battle with breast cancer, had, one week earlier, come to an end.
Two years later, he attended the requiem mass and funeral of another Catholic friend, the Scottish judge Lord John Wheatley.
A requiem mass will be held a St Vincent's Church, Queens Road, Hull on Tuesday 23rd January 2024 at 12 noon prior to interment at the Northern Cemetery.
Common combinations with requiem
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- requiem mass 47×
- the requiem 13×
- for requiem 10×
- requiem for 8×
- his requiem 6×
- requiem is 6×
- requiem in 5×
- and requiem 3×
- am requiem 3×
- in requiem 3×