How to Use requiem in a Sentence

requiem

noun

• 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
• Well, this is a requiem for the man as well as his market.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
• Sox still have some say in the requiem for this season.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• The book is something of a requiem and a rhapsody combined.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• 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
• There are stormy requiems, like Mozart’s and Verdi’s, that raise the dead with thunder and earthquakes.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 11 May 2018
• A perfect day for a sailor’s requiem just outside the Golden Gate at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• This is a stirring requiem for the dead, shot through with defiant life.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• 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
• In the next act, a flutist-cat works with percussionists to perform a requiem.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The center opened in 1971 with a requiem Mass in Kennedy’s honor, composed by Leonard Bernstein.
  — Ben Nuckols, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• 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
• The scene feels like a requiem, or an offering — a paying of respects to the departed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
• 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 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
• 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
• Did Salieri really commission Mozart to write a requiem for his father to send him to his grave?
  — Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Is this a requiem for the American family, or a hymn to its battered resilience?
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• 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
• Hailstork and Martin have created a requiem that feels alive and has only just taken its first breaths.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024