epitaph

Example Sentences

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When the cartographer James Cheshire stumbled into the room in University College London several years ago, he encountered less a resource for mapping the modern globe than “an epitaph of a world we once knew.”

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

It would make a good epitaph for Billy Pilgrim—and for me, too.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut