epitaph

Example Sentences

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If we were to assign his TV father an epitaph, he could do a lot worse than the unvarnished speech that closes the first season.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025

Despite all this Mr Varvill's own epitaph for the business overshadows technological milestones.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025

In words he shared with teenagers, Prefontaine wrote his own best epitaph: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 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

On the margin, in the secretary’s neat hand, was the laconic epitaph “susp.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White