How to Use obit in a Sentence

obit

noun
  • A lot of obits have been written the past few weeks.
    — ABC News, 5 May 2026
  • Dad is a special man who wrote this obit in the first person.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Howlett knows people may fret about getting an obit just right.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Her husband was not mentioned in the obit.
    — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Andy had four grandchildren at his time of death, his obit read.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2020
  • My thing about obits wasn’t limited to the Times.
    — Griffin Dunne, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Material for that obit has been rolling in of late.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 21 Feb. 2026
  • There is so much more in this obit — so much more that is fascinating.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The organ donor saved and enriched four lives after his death, the obit said.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 15 June 2017
  • To read that obit (published in the New York Times), go here.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 June 2024
  • Alas, hip-hop had lost its former glory, read the premature obits.
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • More than one obit of Hilde Zadek began with the story of her debut.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 July 2019
  • According to the obit, a private service will be held in the near future.
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2019
  • Postscript In college, my very first journalism job was on the obits desk.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2020
  • That is part of the headline over Kadare’s obit in the New York Times.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2024
  • Clay Risen, of the Times, has written an excellent obit of him, here.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Jan. 2022
  • And yet, the ratio of dive-bar listicles to dive-bar obits must be about 10 to 1.
    — Tim Carman, ajc, 7 May 2017
  • And yet, the ratio of dive-bar listicles to dive-bar obits must be about 10 to 1.
    — Tim Carman and Fritz Hahn, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • Make time for the colorful and touching memories shared in this obit.
    — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • But the finer points of the Slay obit were less a resume than a catalog of whimsy.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • An artist's history at the AMAs is rarely mentioned in obits.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2019
  • And what struck me was her official obit was three paragraphs, a 74 year old life wrapped up in just 60 words.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The Moody Blues, as the obit explains, got the reputation of a thinking person’s rock band.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Nov. 2021
  • However, there is no doubt the newspaper business remains in a fluid state, but don’t write the industry’s obit anytime soon.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • As the oldest of three children, Fitzgerald had also just started living on his own in Manhattan, per the obit.
    — David Chiu, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Nearly every obit today after news broke of her death at age 79 rightly had Annie Hall in its headline.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Dad didn’t seem to give much thought to his own death, except on the rare occasions when the obits carried news of a deceased classmate from Williams College.
    — Griffin Dunne, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Boone died at age 84 at home in Alexandria in December 2019 from lung cancer, per his obit.
    — Jessica Booth, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • His passing touched people beyond his close circle of colleagues and friends, with his Deadline obit viewed by more than 18,200 to date.
    — Stuart Levine, Deadline, 24 Nov. 2025
  • People constantly wanted to put him back into that ‘80s moment—and the Times obit represents an example of that.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025

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