reminder of mortality
Example Sentences
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The ashes are delivered with a reminder of mortality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Participants, including the pope, had ashes sprinkled on their heads in the customary reminder of mortality during the service in the Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill.
From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2023
Updating the classical memento mori, a reminder of mortality, the Tennessee artist depicts toys, ornaments and Halloween decorations.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022
The ubiquity of clocks was a sombre reminder of mortality, complained the painter Phillipe Mercier.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011
It was retained by the sixty-seventh canon as a solemn reminder of mortality.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
