How to Use eulogy in a Sentence

eulogy

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  • At his family’s request, there was no eulogy at his funeral service.
    — Nicolaus Mills, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
  • But the Facebook eulogy that stayed with me the most was one that seemed to grapple with the uncertainty of Pinel’s legacy.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 27 May 2021
  • Lowenstein said in the eulogy that eventually the siblings and their mother were reunited and lived together in the city.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • Paul attended her funeral, where Williams’ eulogy inspired attendees with his strength and poise in the face of sadness.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2021
  • Later, at the memorial service, a friend of Robbie’s from the skate park delivered a eulogy, and Hinkel gave a short speech.
    — Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021
  • Biden, a good friend of the Dingells, delivered a eulogy for Dingell at his funeral in Dearborn.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2021
  • While the company is inside BAM delivering a eulogy, bodies pile up at the doors.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 June 2021
  • But another longtime coach, Bob Huggins, said Monday the eulogy for his career won't be written anytime soon.
    — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 16 June 2021
  • He’s kind of on edge during the eulogy, a little bit toward the end.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Kenny goes to the church to find something to use as a eulogy and hears something in the basement.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • About him and a cousin of his delivered the eulogy at the funeral.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 July 2022
  • Muskan Walia, a 20-year-old student at the University of Utah, shared a eulogy for the lake.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • In his eulogy, he was described as a hero of the month-long 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • Mike Duggan said lots of nice things in John Levy's eulogy, got some laughs, bobbed some heads, maybe sparked some tears.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2024
  • And a boy was the reader of the collective eulogy, but his role as Miles was beefed up in the post-dream production work.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The funeral will be open to the public, and the Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy.
    — Lucas Finton, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The brief, formal event sounded, at times, like a eulogy.
    — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • After Putin’s speech, the eulogies for the Wagner boss began to pour in.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That scene found its way into a real-life eulogy as a fan of the show, Ryan Sainio, confronted the loss of his sister.
    — Vulture, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But despite the many eulogies for the metaverse, the promise has not died and the technologies seem to be improving.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The album—with ten tracks sung by Reed, five by Cale—is their joint eulogy and elegy.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Don’t mean to overreact here, spilling into eulogy mode, writing in the past tense.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In his eulogy for her, her son recalled both Ms. Abramowitz’s forcefulness and reach.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The book is also inevitably a eulogy for a vanishing world.
    — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Think about what people might say in your eulogy to help direct your time now to actions that matter.
    — Laura Vanderkam, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • His mom, Maureen, asked him to write the obituary and deliver the eulogy.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The online eulogy for Choco Tacos has been something even the most beloved statesman or actor would envy.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 July 2022
  • But this script, an artifact of S and me, was neither eulogy nor tombstone.
    — Eliza Dumais, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2023
  • On Thursday, Pam Ayres, the British poet and broadcaster, shared a brief eulogy for the pub on social media.
    — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • His third-grade teacher Bobbi Hamman also shared a brief eulogy, writing that Ozuna was a great writer and an even better friend.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2024

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