Example sentences for: obit

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

  • The obit pages report that William McChesney Martin, Jr., former chair of the Federal Reserve, died on Tuesday.

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • " 'It is their rapid rise here, of course, that makes this careless effort at a cookbook so regrettable,' " the obit quotes the 1998 Times piece.

  • Those were the days when you got the business beat after you'd been demoted from the obit page (I'm exaggerating, but not by much), and I felt as though I'd been let in on this wonderful secret: Business was exciting!


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