How to Use requiem in a Sentence

requiem

noun
  • There, he was honored with salutes and a requiem.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • At its best, this opera comes across as an anguished requiem.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Go ahead and sing that requiem for a dying league, but don’t be so mournful about it.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • This is a stirring requiem for the dead, shot through with defiant life.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • There would be no requiem for the weekend’s four losses at the hands of the Dodgers.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022
  • In the next act, a flutist-cat works with percussionists to perform a requiem.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Some countries had argued that including all species of requiem sharks was an abuse of the listing process.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Some of my colleagues have written requiems for the Tea Party.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024
  • The scene feels like a requiem, or an offering — a paying of respects to the departed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
  • The listings approved last week are dominated by requiem sharks, which make up most of the global fin trade.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 21 Nov. 2022
  • There are stormy requiems, like Mozart’s and Verdi’s, that raise the dead with thunder and earthquakes.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 11 May 2018
  • Some movement exists — sing a requiem for the Sooners this year — but in large measure the games don’t even have to be played.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • That changed to a requiem when Mays suddenly passed away at 93 on Tuesday.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • From my point of view, this work is nothing more than the quintessence of the world’s grief, the composer’s requiem for himself.
    — Leilah Bernstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 June 2017
  • Hailstork and Martin have created a requiem that feels alive and has only just taken its first breaths.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Is this a requiem for the American family, or a hymn to its battered resilience?
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • Did Salieri really commission Mozart to write a requiem for his father to send him to his grave?
    — Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Addison wrote the requiem over an eight-month period, giving him time to reflect on the man his father was and capture that in music.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The requiem for the legendary Glen Park school came eight years after its doors closed in the wake of declining enrollment.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Throughout its eight minutes, the track provides about as much sadness and beauty as a listener can handle—and, yes, a fitting requiem to the storm.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2015
  • The English-language text of the requiem also will be projected onto the façade of the opera house during the performance.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • In some ways that makes this second Souvenir both a postscript and a requiem, a living ghost story haunted by bereavement and regret.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This an album-length requiem for the overstimulated and the under-inspired, an ode to the numb generation.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
  • Displayed side-by-side, the monumental acrylic and oilstick on paper mounted on canvas works can be read (or heard) as Basquiat’s requiem.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Those were the keys in keeping anyone, everyone, from singing a sorry requiem for BYU football.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This Milan is not a reprise of the glory days when Serie A towered over the world, but something closer to a requiem for them.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • The biggest difference is probably how Laurie plays the final requiem.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 May 2026
  • Zhao’s film is a requiem for Fern’s former way of life and a celebration of the new existence she’s found, living in her van and moving from job to job as the seasons change.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The half-hour-long Requiem opens at the lowest depths — as lightless as the bottom of the ocean — and features dense choral clusters that seem to emanate from an extraterrestrial source.
    — Thomas May, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
  • The poignant song served as a kind of requiem reflecting the themes of death and loss sincerely depicted in the drama, and captured the hearts of viewers even before the song actually went on sale.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 15 June 2018

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