elegy - use in sentences
Adjective modifier
- beautiful: The film is a beautiful elegy on being different.
- famous: In a famous elegy David lamented Jonathan's death, with Saul, in battle on Mt.
- heartfelt: Nothing could be more suitable than this exquisite and heartfelt elegy.
Converse of object
- move: The tone was decorous and reserved, a moving elegy delivered by someone who didn't know the deceased very well.
- include: It includes a new work Elegy, composed especially for the choir by our founder, David Aylett.
- get: One gets a deeply-felt elegy, the other a vicious scherzo - no prizes for guessing which!
Noun used with modifier
- love: Ref. to women in love elegy: he takes them as real.
- part: Reviews 'The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny.
- work: It includes a new work Elegy, composed especially for the choir by our founder, David Aylett.
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