How to use "obituary" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "obituary" in popular movie and book plots

  • House Googled the obituary and learned that her mother died "after a long illness," and asks Thirteen if it was Parkinson's disease.  - You Don't Want to Know
  • Mulder receives emails containing the doctor's obituary along with two other identical doctors.  - Colony (The X-Files)
  • Kaldren shows him his collection of "Terminal Documents"--his obituary of the human race.  - The Voices of Time (short story)
  • She reads her self-written obituary to them, to their horror, followed by her will, which disposes of her possessions.  - A Tangled Web
  • By posing as an obituary writer, Danielle has gotten more information from Carol about her father's early life.  - Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop
  • The next morning, the Saint's attention is drawn by an obituary in the local newspaper of an English tourist by the name of Euston.  - Vendetta for the Saint
  • Zach Young asks his father why he has not put an obituary notice in the paper.  - Pretty Little Picture (Desperate Housewives)
  • Jack Tagger, aged forty-six, is an obituary writer for the Union-Register (a fictitious South Florida newspaper).  - Basket Case (novel)
  • The exchange from Night Moves was quoted in director Éric Rohmer's New York Times obituary in 2010.  - Night Moves (1975 film)
  • " The four go to a Chinese restaurant to write Sean's obituary and include David as his "longtime companion".  - Longtime Companion
  • James Joyce, after forging his own obituary to escape being drafted to fight in the Second World War, was serving pints in a small pub.  - The Dalkey Archive
  • When Nancy reaches Aden and sees the obituary in the paper, she becomes catatonic.  - The Good Soldier
  • He ultimately finds an obituary that blames the death on an accident during the cleaning of the gun.  - The Conformist
  • He later finds her obituary in the newspaper and learns his wife had been worried over financial issues prior to her death.  - Kiss of Death (1947 film)
  • Tender tells Trevor to kill himself, and soon after, reads his obituary in the paper.  - Survivor (Palahniuk novel)
  • A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher.  - Citizen Kane

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