epitaph
Example Sentences
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Their epitaph was the greatest bloodbath in American history.
When the cartographer James Cheshire stumbled into the room in University College London several years ago, he encountered less a resource for mapping the modern globe than “an epitaph of a world we once knew.”
In words he shared with teenagers, Prefontaine wrote his own best epitaph: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
Instead, it seems that American exceptionalism will play a prominent role in the epitaph for American democracy.
From Salon
There’s an abundance of small slabs, simple epitaphs like Our Baby.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
