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Example sentences for "obituaries"

Lexicographically close words:
obijt; obispos; obit; obiter; obits; obituary; obitum; obitus; object; objecte
  1. Since the war began Mr Force had found ample and remunerative occupation writing the 'Obituaries of Distinguished Persons.

  2. The other boarder was a rather frail man with an easy cough and a confidential manner, lie wrote the 'Obituaries of Distinguished Persons' for one of the daily papers.

  3. On every well-managed paper there is a set of pigeon-holed obituaries of eminent persons, local as well as national.

  4. The foreman grumbles if he has to put obituaries on page 5, which goes down to the machine at half-past three.

  5. Moreover,' said he, 'I noticed that it is expected of these papers to publish obituaries of communal celebrities, for whose biographies no adequate materials are anywhere extant.

  6. You will get the obituaries sent in of themselves by the relatives.

  7. Some are settling the tariff and fixing the laws of suffrage and taxation while he is dozing over the weather bulletin, and going to sleep over the obituaries in his morning or evening paper.

  8. There were obituaries to write as usual, but now and then Mr. DeWitt gave her a more interesting task.

  9. Seemingly there were endless numbers of obituaries to write.

  10. All morning the obituaries kept coming in, and then there were the hospitals to call for accident reports, and the weather bureau.

  11. And the provincial writer of obituaries follows a high authority, another rustic poet, deathless and known throughout the world, who sang of his Hoosier friend "he is not dead but just away.

  12. I doubt very much indeed whether any one could read obituaries every day for a year and remain a bad man or woman.

  13. In country obituaries all that has been done was done by the deceased.

  14. On the other hand, positively nowhere else does the heart to dare and the power to do find such generous recognition as in the obituaries of country papers.

  15. In many respects, the best obituaries are to be found in country papers.

  16. But after all, all obituaries in a great city are for the elect.

  17. Country obituaries are not afraid to be themselves.

  18. Bradford Prince of Santa Fé) rests for its information upon the obituaries preserved by Father Ayeta.

  19. That these obituaries are of direct value to the history of the Rio Grande Pueblos is apparent.

  20. Mr. Inglesby favored the collector of butterflies and obituaries with another speculative, piglike stare.

  21. Who was this fellow braying of obituaries as if he, Inglesby, were on the highroad to oblivion already, when he was, in reality, still quite a young man?

  22. Moreover," said he, "I noticed that it is expected of these papers to publish obituaries of communal celebrities, for whose biographies no adequate materials are anywhere extant.

  23. It is my desire to leave these Amended Obituaries neatly bound behind me as a perennial consolation and entertainment to my family, and as an heirloom which shall have a mournful but definite commercial value for my remote posterity.

  24. It is my desire that such journals and periodicals as have obituaries of me lying in their pigeonholes, with a view to sudden use some day, will not wait longer, but will publish them now, and kindly send me a marked copy.

  25. But the obituaries of abbots or monks, with the quaint remarks appended thereto, and epitomes of a lifetime in a sentence, are by no means the least interesting portion of those ancient tomes.

  26. The obituaries of ecclesiastics and details of foreign missions, which we have already recorded, are its salient points.

  27. In the Annals of the Four Masters, the obituaries of good men are invariably placed before the records of the evil deeds of warriors or princes.

  28. The Annals give the obituaries of some saintly men, whose lives redeemed the age from the character for barbarity, which its secular literature would seem to justify.

  29. The entries during the long reign of Domhnall contain little save obituaries of abbots and saints.

  30. The obituaries of several saints also occur at the close of the tenth and commencement of the eleventh centuries.

  31. It is noticeable that, in the Annals of the Four Masters, obituaries of saints or good men always occupy the first place.

  32. I just wish I had the writing of the obituaries of some people.

  33. The Enterprise seems to run to obituaries these days," quoth Miss Cornelia.

  34. Read obituaries when you're blue, Anne, dearie--especially the ones of folks you know.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obituaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.