dead march
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles, All the channels of the city streets they're flooding, As with voices and with tears. . . . Now nearer blow the bugles, And the drums strike more convulsive, And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded, And the strong dead-march enwraps me."
- "A captain's guard marched before the corpse, the captain of it in the rear, the firelocks reversed, the drums beating the dead march."
- "Lord Cramer . . . described the burying of his company's colonel after it—the open grave in a cleft of hills dark with pines, the solemn dead march, the noble words spoken as they left their leader forever."
- "At the end, the orchestra played a somber dead march that was punctuated by harsh, chilling blows on the timpani."
- "[W]hat divine ravishments may we not anticipate from this venerable, embrowned old organ, which might almost have played the Dead March in Saul, when King Saul himself was buried."
- "Conner's Band preceded the procession, playing the Dead March. The body was conveyed to Cypress Hill Cemetery."