How to Use eulogy in a Sentence

eulogy

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  • He delivered a moving eulogy at his father's funeral.
  • The eulogies were as much about the police as about him.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • My archived apps read like a eulogy for my Before Times life.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Cher gave the eulogy at Bono's funeral at the request of his fourth wife, Mary.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The movie works well as a eulogy, but there have been plenty of those for Garland over the decades; Judy could’ve been something more.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In his eulogy, he was described as a hero of the month-long 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • The heaviness of giving a eulogy for a son who never had a chance to breathe.
    — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 18 June 2018
  • In a eulogy, Kepler spoke about how both of them were hard workers.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • He’s given a eulogy dressed in his blue and red unitard.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Nor was there any eulogy in Lebanon -- for either him or his daughter.
    — Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank and Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 14 Nov. 2020
  • If Ginsburg has her way, her own eulogy will not be written for many, many years.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 24 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The eulogy was served as the team lost two against the Tampa Bay Rays ahead of an underwhelming trade deadline.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Eighteen years after its launch, Apple is bidding farewell to iTunes and The Ringer has a very blunt eulogy.
    — Ray Boyd, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • My sister asked her husband to give the eulogy for our mother.
    — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • When the streets in his neighborhood were passable again after the flood, Haines painted a eulogy to his husband on the side of their home.
    — Scott Dalton, CNN, 25 Aug. 2019
  • While the readings and the eulogies drew on the deep fraternity of the NFL, the presentation of the gifts took on a different touch.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Roberta realized there was no one else to give the eulogy.
    — Libby Copeland, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020

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