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Example Sentences

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If so, there could be no one around to put an R.I.P. on humanity’s gravestone.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

If that doesn’t spike the ratings, then R.I.P.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Among the drawings is a sidewalk memorial showing the image of a Black boy on a poster marked R.I.P. attached to an iron fence and surrounded by flowers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022

R.I.P. — but on the bright side, through a complex combination of luck and microbial activity, their tiny corpses become frozen in time.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

“On the wall of P.S. 101’s schoolyard. The back wall. The one that faces 111th Street. Freddy would hang there all night. I want it to say, ‘Freddy the best of 109th Street, R.I.P.’

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez