epitaphs

Example Sentences

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“They’re like little epitaphs for the departed,” Ruscha says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

And so, every New Year's Day the words of Amundsen and Scott, inscribed as epitaphs at the geographic South Pole, are ceremonially moved to the newly measured, precise bottom of the earth.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

Social media erupted with epitaphs to the tiny cub.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2023

Recipe epitaphs actually make a lot of sense, Rhoads said, given the tie between food and death.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022

It was impossible, of course, to ignore the crosses, and each morning Jerry G. and Horsethief Shorty, occasionally aided by Bernabe Montoya and the state cops, had to uproot a dozen epitaphs.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols