epitaph
Example Sentences
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As one epitaph at Père-Lachaise puts it: “Alas!”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
If we were to assign his TV father an epitaph, he could do a lot worse than the unvarnished speech that closes the first season.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025
If this ends up being Cronenberg’s last, he’ll have gone out with a worldly, weighty epitaph.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
It was his epitaph, and I think it sums up the whole quest for happiness.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025
His epitaph, which he himself composed, was: “I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth- bound the body rests.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing epitaph
A Raisin in the Sun
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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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Much Ado About Nothing
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