final rest

Example Sentences

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"How can you lose the place where you were born, where you grew up, where your child grew up, where he found his final rest?" she tells me through tears.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

Now, Eugene wishes to gain a final rest from the cycle, to be released from the emotional burden he has carried since his days as a cutpurse in Moorish Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

It was the final rest and relaxation for McVay, 36, as today it’s officially Super Bowl week, and that means media obligations and team hotels away from Ms. Khomyn, 25.

From Fox News • Feb. 7, 2022

Bush, who shaped history as 41st president and patriarch of a family that occupied the White House for a dozen years, is going to his final rest, in Texas.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2018

All solemnity, therefore, was silent, the peals muffled; and bodies went unheralded to their final rest; and we shoveled dirt atop the dead and watched their wooden vessels sink beneath the earth without a cry.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson