Example sentences for: obit

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

  • One other notable feature of the Times ' obit: Nemy takes pains to point out the negative results of the Times ' own taste test of the recipe book Cooking With the Two Fat Ladies . A writer found that no less than all six of the six recipes she tested didn't work.

  • Instead of our regular class work, let's go outside under the big, old dead elm and show a filmstrip, i.e., let's quote a few highlights from Tim Weiner's dark and charming New York Times obit titled "Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies, Took LSD to CIA," an account of the man who ran MKUltra, a project that dosed unsuspecting Americans with hallucinogenic drugs for charity.

  • Turns out that there's a virtually identical 54-word passage appearing in both the NYT obit, running over the byline of Alessandra Stanley, and in the WP obit, credited to "News Services."

  • Anyway, the Times obit is written by Enid Nemy, who does not normally grace the death announcement page, and she notes that no less a fan than Prince Charles "sent a gift of homemade organic tomato soup and vanilla ice cream to Ms. Paterson after she disclosed her illness last month."

  • It's a measure of boomer media dominance that Moore is given a lengthy obit at the NYT and a front-page one at the LAT .


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