final rest

Example Sentences

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"How can you lose the place where you were born, where you grew up, where your child grew up, where he found his final rest?" she tells me through tears.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

It was the final rest and relaxation for McVay, 36, as today it’s officially Super Bowl week, and that means media obligations and team hotels away from Ms. Khomyn, 25.

From Fox News • Feb. 7, 2022

He may not receive his final rest there, but I think of Bob every time I see that monument.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2021

“On a grassy slope in Oakland, more than 400 take their final rest, mostly children who were unclaimed or unidentified,” wrote reporter Tim Reiterman in 2003.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2019

But… I thought back to Togbe’s stories… then that must be the same creature that had carried Great-Great-Grandpa Nutifafa to his final rest.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo