epitaph
Example Sentences
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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
After the demolition, all they found were some broken pieces of his grave's epitaph.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2024
Imagine being dealt this terrible hand, and still having that be your epitaph.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023
It would make a good epitaph for Billy Pilgrim—and for me, too.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Vocabulary lists containing epitaph
A Raisin in the Sun
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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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Much Ado About Nothing
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