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 this ends up being Cronenberg’s last, he’ll have gone out with a worldly, weighty epitaph.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
On the headstone marking his grave, the epitaph simply read “The Butler.”
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024
Mr Suraiya, the magazine's most prolific and peripatetic writer, wrote the epitaph for a dream that died young.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023
That’s not meant in a nice way; but could there be a better epitaph for a rhetorician?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
