obsequies

Example Sentences

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I don’t want to add here to the emotional obsequies being written for the Washington Post, after its latest round of contraction last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

The diplomatic focus will be on the part of St Peter's Square where presidents and prime ministers, princes and monarchs will sit waiting for the obsequies to begin.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

That knowledge sits uncomfortably with what has come before, not because the leaden language of the scripted obsequies is persuasive, but because the grieving citizens are so real.

From New York Times • May 6, 2021

What Levin has written is a diverting meta-thriller implying he is delivering the final obsequies over a once-flourishing but exhausted genre.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2010

To make my lady's obsequies, My love a minster wrought, And in the chantry, service there Was sung by doleful thought.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various