Sample Sentences for
epitaph
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  • Martin Luther King's epitaph reads: Free at Last, Free at Last Thank God Almighty I'm Free at Last.
  • I want to lead a life that permits a true and honorable epitaph.
    epitaph = short texts in memory of dead people
  • You done wrote his epitaph too—like the rest of the world?  (source)
    epitaph = short text to be inscribed on a tomb in memory of the person buried there
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  • Only few become legend, so he chose as the epitaph for her tombstone: CATHERINE DANIELLE CLARK — "KYA" — THE MARSH GIRL — 1945-2009  (source)
    epitaph = text written on a tombstone
  • How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays ... reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or...  (source)
    epitaphs = short text inscribed on a tombstone in memory of a dead person
  • Chose his own epitaph.  (source)
    epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person -- typically written on their tombstone
  • Dead with neat stones above them, saying: 'Here lies a soldier of the Confederacy, dead for the Southland' or 'Dulce et decorum est—' or any of the other popular epitaphs.†  (source)
  • It would make a good epitaph for Billy Pilgrim-and for me, too.†  (source)
  • I used to know St. Louis, even collected epitaphs.†  (source)
  • Oh-h-h, tempt not the gods of the desert, Lest you seek a lonely epitaph.†  (source)
  • My father had picked out the headstone he wanted way back when he was so interested in epitaphs.†  (source)
  • He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves.†  (source)
  • Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.†  (source)
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