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

After the manner in which England’s campaign was conducted, it was both comedy gold and the perfect epitaph for those few weeks in France.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024

Imagine being dealt this terrible hand, and still having that be your epitaph.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

And no greater tribute can be paid to you as parents, and no greater epitaph can come to them as children, than where they died and what they were doing when they died.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry