How to Use eulogy in a Sentence

eulogy

noun
  • He delivered a moving eulogy at his father's funeral.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Levon gives up and bails on Rick’s funeral, while Robbie gives the eulogy.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
  • These eulogies bring a little real life to the fantasy.
    Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 29 June 2023
  • Ashley Gjurich was in the middle of a eulogy for her slain sister, Nicole Santillanes, when a small hand reached up and squeezed her shoulder.
    Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • After the eulogies, a cortege of town cars fast-tracks Logan’s body through the Manhattan grid to a mausoleum purchased from a onetime pet food mogul.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • Before the defense rested on Thursday afternoon, Markus asked his client to read the eulogy again.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
  • John Oliver, convinced that Stewart had died, gave a fake eulogy.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Duncan used that same Bible Tuesday used to deliver the rest of his eulogy — a scripture about being prepared to meet God.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The answer lies in another aspect of the postwar economic order for which Bunch’s book serves as a kind of eulogy.
    Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In the coming days, Tate would sit at his desk in the office behind the sanctuary to write the eulogy for yet another young Black man killed by gun violence.
    Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The same phrase became a common refrain in many tributes and eulogies on social media.
    Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 2 June 2023
  • The film follows the life of a man who writes eulogies for people’s funerals and in researching other people’s lives finds meaning in his own.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 18 June 2023
  • Head over to the Los Angeles Times’ website to read Stamos’ eulogy in its entirety.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • President Joe Biden is set to deliver the eulogy of Albright, who died March 23 at 84 years old after a fight with cancer.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022

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