necrology
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021
Whitman’s name doesn’t come up in Vanessa Gould’s “Obit,” a documentary about The Times’s necrology team at work.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2017
I mean, no Rivette in the necrology montage?
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
![]()
All the phantoms of this necrology were passing before my eyes!
From A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) by Verne, Jules
A searchable database of necrologies retrieves different spellings of family names.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
As a rule the necrologies find me personally interested—when they treat of old stagers.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Paine, Albert Bigelow
But of these gentlemen I find no account in the fashionable necrologies.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall