Example sentences for: epitaph

How can you use “epitaph” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Quibbling additions and corrections: the mirrorreverse epitaph (p. 2) is anything but an illiterate endeavor, the letter forms being quite standard, the contents entirely normal.

  • Next to the church of San Francesco, in a building of 1780, is the tomb of Dante, who died here, in exile, in 1321, with a fellow poet’s epitaph: “Here I lie buried, Dante, exiled from my birthplace, son of Florence, that loveless mother. ”

  • He speaks the movie's epitaph, "Darkness and light, strife and love: Are they the workings of one mind, the feature of the same face?

  • It's sad to think that the epitaph on countless headstones over the next few decades will have this postscript: "I might have lived a full life if Bill had decided to retire just a bit earlier."

  • When Franjo Tudjman dies, as he is expected to any day, his Croatian followers will surely write him an epitaph full of the grandiosity Tudjman adored so much in life.


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