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

A fitting epitaph for a man whose legacy was not just business, but quiet defiance, compassion, and conviction.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 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 headstone marking his grave, the epitaph simply read “The Butler.”

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

His epitaph, which he himself composed, was: “I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, Earth- bound the body rests.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan